[Sample B: Approval/Signature Sheet] - George Mason University

When Garrison returns to the screen, he learns that Oswald had spent the summer
in New Orleans, and decides to investigate the matter. An aide finds that Oswald
apparently associated with David Ferrie, and that an anonymous source told him Ferrie
was to be the getaway pilot for the alleged assassin. Garrison questions Ferrie about his
trip to Houston and Galveston, Texas after the assassination, and the quirky pilot tells a
contradictory tale about going to ice skate and hunt geese. Garrison has Ferrie detained
for questioning by the FBI, but when the FBI declares Ferrie clear of any connection to
the assassination, Garrison drops the matter. However, three years later, Garrison has a
disturbing conversation with Louisiana Senator Russell Long, in which Long declares
“Those Warren Commission fellows were pickin’ gnat shit out of pepper. No one’s
gonna tell me that kid did the shooting job he did from that damned bookstore.” Long
expostulates in colorful language about the Warren Commission findings, and says “I
think Oswald was a good, old-fashioned decoy.” 691
As a result of this conversation, Garrison begins to read the Warren Commission
the 26-volumne Warren report. Stone makes this dramatically interesting by recreating
the scenes Garrison is reading about. The audience hears a witness testifying about
suspicious activity on the Grassy Knoll, and Stone shows quick-cut footage of men
moving about in uniforms and flashes of light and smoke. Garrison is becoming
obsessed with the testimony and begins to neglect his wife. He wakes up in the middle of
the night and starts explaining how Oswald was given a Russian examination while in the
Marine Corps. “Do I have to spell it out for you?” he tells his skeptical and sleepy wife.
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