A scene from JFK 1991
Bill Broussard

I'm lost. What are we saying?

Jim Garrison

That when Oswald went to Russia, he was not a real defector. He was an intelligence agent for our government and remained one till he died.

Bill Broussard

So, because Oswald pulled the trigger the intelligence community murdered the President?

Jim Garrison

I'll go you one better. Maybe Oswald didn't pull the trigger. Nitrate tests indicate he hadn't fired a rifle on November 22. And they didn't bother to see if the rifle'd been fired that day.

Bill Broussard

His palm print was on it.

Jim Garrison

It went to the FBI. FBI didn't find a goddamn thing. It comes back a week later and a Dallas policeman suddenly finds a palm print? It could've been taken at the morgue. There's no chain of evidence.

Al Oser

I can't figure out why he orders a traceable weapon to a P.O. box, when he can go into any store in Texas give a phony name and walk out with an untraceable rifle.

Susie Cox

To frame him, obviously!

Jim Garrison

A lot of smoke, but some fire.

Bill Broussard

We're talking about our government!

Jim Garrison

We're talking about a crime. You must think on a different level, like the CIA does. We're through the looking glass. White is black. And black is white. Maybe Oswald is just what he said he was. A patsy.

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