:57:00
and the first show has to be
a two-hour special on Mary Ann Gifford.
:57:04
I want a lot more film like the bank
rip-off the Ecumenical sent in.
:57:09
The way I see the series is...
:57:12
each week we open with an authentic act
of political terrorism...
:57:16
taken on the spot
and in the actual moment.
:57:19
Then we go to the drama behind
the opening film footage.
:57:22
That's your job, Miss Hobbs.
:57:24
You've got to get the Ecumenicals
to bring in that film footage for us.
:57:28
The network can't deal with them.
They are wanted criminals.
:57:32
The Ecumenical Liberation Army
is an ultra-left sect...
:57:35
creating political confusion...
:57:37
with wildcat violence
and pseudo-insurrectionary acts...
:57:40
which the Communist Party
does not endorse.
:57:42
The American masses are not yet ready
for open revolt.
:57:45
We would not want to produce
a television show...
:57:48
celebrating historically
deviational terrorism.
:57:51
I'm offering you an hour
of prime-time television every week...
:57:54
into which you can stick
whatever propaganda you want.
:57:56
The Ecumenicals are an undisciplined
ultra-left gang...
:57:59
whose leader is an eccentric,
to say the least.
:58:02
He calls himself the Great Ahmed Khan
and wears a hussar's shako.
:58:07
We're talking about
30 to 50 million people a shot.
:58:10
It's better than handing out...
:58:12
mimeographed pamphlets
on ghetto street corners.
:58:20
I'll have to take this matter
to the Central Committee.
:58:24
And I'd better check it out
with the Great Ahmed Khan.
:58:28
I'll be in L.A. Until Saturday,
and I'd like to get it rolling.