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A Man Who Thinks He Knows Who Really Killed the President
An old man takes on the scars of the nation and claims to know who killed JFK and that he helped set the conspiracy in motion. His story unfolds through fractured memories of deep interracial love, political idealism, and psychological desperation.
As George idolizes Kennedy, a MYSTERIOUS MAN whispers doubts—the Bay of Pigs, presidential infidelity, Cold War brinkmanship with Nikita Khrushchev, the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, and looming world catastrophe.
The MYSTERIOUS MAN advances a chilling thesis: only a martyr can pass civil rights legislation and avert war. Blackmailed into an assassination plot, George convinces himself that he can stop it from within. He trains with a rifle and cases the Texas School Book Depository. He learns that Lee Harvey Oswald will be the scapegoat.
November 22, 1963, School Book Depository: George tries to fire warning shots in the air—but his rifle only clicks. Real shots ring out.
ACT TWO As the nation mourns, wheelchair bound Madeline watches the funeral on TV. George blurts out his “role in the assassination.” She sees attention-seeking madness. He accuses her of marrying him “to be white” and staying with him because of her disability.
In fury and love, she stands and walks for the first time since the accident. They collapse in each other’s arms, reborn in grief.
At her mother’s funeral, pregnant Madeline learns she was conceived through incest and endured long-denied abuse. The truth reframes her life; George holds her as she grieves.
ACT THREE: By 1983, Madeline is a powerful attorney with offices atop the World Trade Center. Their son, Johnny, conceived the night of Kennedy’s funeral, struggles as the only white player on the Ole Miss football team.
September 11, 2001. Madeline talks on the phone to a panicked George as smoke fills her office. Clutching the African Goddess he carved for her when they were young, she forbids him to die. The line crackles as the tower falls.
October 2001. Armed with a gun, George confronts the elderly MYSTERIOUS MAN, who admits that Kennedy’s death solved nothing—Vietnam came, racism endured. George holds a gun to the Mysterious Man’s head but cannot shoot.
Time Fracture - George awakens in 1983 with Madeline alive. He wants to prevent her move to the World Trade Center—but fails. 2031 – A new, multiracial President moves through a cheering crowd. George pushes forward to deliver the warning he failed to give Kennedy. He’s shot dead by panicked Secret Service Agents.
CODA 1983 - On a sunlit highway, Madeline’s car pulls up. The passenger door opens. Old George: “I can still make it to pick up Johnny, with the love of my life... Old George runs to her, struggling. Now he's Young George, running in broad, youthful strides. Young George: “My soul, my Madeline, loving together, in all times, for all of time, eternal flame, forever.”
Young George gets into the car, which drives off.
Madeline 19-60
Mysterious Man 55-85
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