Lee Marvin: Self - Host, Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Lee Marvin - Host : On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, was assassinated. Two days later his alleged assassin was also shot down. A thousand miles away, in the intelligence unit of the Miami Police Department, a routine check was made to see if there were any indicates whether a particular penitentiary inmate had ever been associated with Lee Harvey Oswald. Their apparent political ideologies were at opposite poles; their backgrounds widely dissimilar. The routine investigation proved negative, but why was it made? The inmate had previous spoken of hatreds and violence and assassinations, but he was only a meter reader not a dangerous man. Another man who spoke of those same hatreds and violence was also not a dangerous man - just a paperhanger

  [cut to archive footage of Adolph Hitler making a speech before thousands of followers] 

• Lee Marvin - Host : If our story were fiction, perhaps we could borrow a title from Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities". Berlin and Miami, separated by four thousand miles and twenty years of history - but maybe not separate enough.