:23:03
I think it started like that.
:23:05
In the wind.
:23:06
Defense contractors, oil bankers.
Just conversation.
:23:10
A call is made. Maybe to someone
like my superior officer General Y.
:23:15
We're going. We need your help.
:23:18
When?
:23:19
In the fall. Probably in the South.
:23:22
We want you to come up with a plan.
I can do that.
:23:25
Everything is cellularized.
:23:27
No one said, "He must die." No vote.
Nothing's on paper.
:23:30
There's no one to blame.
:23:33
Is as old as the crucifixion.
:23:35
Or the military firing squad.
:23:37
Five bullets, one blank. No one's guilty.
:23:41
Everybody in the power structure...
:23:42
...has a plausible deniability.
:23:45
No compromising connections
except at the most secret point.
:23:49
But it must succeed.
:23:51
No matter how many die
or how much it costs...
:23:54
...the perpetrators must be
on the winning side...
:23:57
...and never subject to prosecution
for anything by anyone.
:24:01
That is a coup d'état.
:24:07
Kennedy announces the Texas trip
in September.
:24:10
At that moment, second Oswalds
pop up all over Dallas...
:24:13
...where they have the mayor
and the cops in their pocket.
:24:16
General Y flies in the assassins.
:24:18
Maybe from the special camp
we keep near Athens, Greece.
:24:22
Pros.
:24:23
They'd be locals, Cubans, Mafia hire.
Separate teams.
:24:27
Does it matter who shot...
:24:29
...from what rooftop?
:24:32
Part of the scenery.
:24:34
I keep thinking about that Tuesday...
:24:37
...the 26th of November.
:24:38
The day after they buried Kennedy.
:24:40
Gentlemen, I am not going to let Vietnam
go like China did.
:24:44
I'm committed...
:24:46
...not to take our soldiers out of there
till they know we mean business in Asia.
:24:50
Lyndon Johnson signs
National Security Memo 273...
:24:54
...which reverses
Kennedy's withdrawal policy...
:24:57
...and approves covert action
against North Vietnam...