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The President met with Henry Cabot Lodge,
our Ambassador to Vietnam...
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...and members of his Cabinet.
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The major subject was Vietnam...
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...a crisis that does not pause
for bereavement.
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From this meeting...
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...came affirmations that
the US would continue aiding...
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...the new government of Vietnam in
its war against the Communist insurgents.
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David Ferrie.
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Come on in.
:18:36
Thanks for coming.
:18:38
Remember me? We met
on Carondelet Street after your election.
:18:42
I remember.
You make quite an impression.
:18:46
I've heard you're a first-rate pilot.
:18:49
Legend has it you can get in
and out of the smallest field.
:18:53
I'm a pilot myself. Flew grasshoppers
for the field artillery in the war.
:18:58
Make yourself comfortable.
:19:01
Mind if I smoke?
:19:03
How could I?
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As you know, President Kennedy
was assassinated on Friday.
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A man named Lee Harvey Oswald
was arrested as a suspect...
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...then murdered yesterday
by a man named Jack Ruby.
:19:16
We've had reports that Oswald
spent the summer here...
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...and that you knew Oswald.
:19:22
I've never met anyone named Oswald.
Anyone who told you that has to be crazy.
:19:26
He served in your Civil Air Patrol unit
when he was a teenager.
:19:30
If he did, I don't remember him.
:19:33
Lots of boys in and out.
:19:35
Surely you've seen this. Perhaps
you knew him under another name?
:19:41
I never saw him before in my life.
:19:45
Then we must have gotten
mistaken information.
:19:48
Thanks for straightening it out.
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There's one other matter.
:19:56
We heard you went to Texas
shortly after the assassination on Friday.