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-12- Larry could not describe the other men very accurately, he claimed his memory of the incident was not clear because he was mainly upset with his own situation. None of the men he was held with talked to each other nor to him. He did mention that all the other men were dressed extremely sloppy and that he was the one with a plaid or checked sport coat and an overcoat. Larry said that if there was anything we would like to ask him at any time he would be willing to help. 5) Considering all of the above I want to propose another project for your evaluation. I have already begun to make a film for my UCLA project, as you know. I had intended to make it a vehicle for showing the Moorman Blow-ups and still feel it should be. Enclosed is the Free Press treatment of the Blow-ups which I know you must have seen. However, what would you think of this. A film suggesting, not definitely or factually restricted, what type of ractivity might have taken place in the instrumentation of the assassination and the escape of the var- ious assassins. That is, a pictorial view of the physical location of Dealey Plaza (realizing that it will soon be destroyed - do you know that the Dallas City Council actually sent a telegram to Mrs. Kennedy asking her to dedicate the new John F. Kennedy Parking Garage!!!) In- corporated in this film would be the disclosure of the possible use of the storm drain; entrance, use and escape; the positions and viewpoints of each assassin behind the fence; the possible use of the grate to the storm drain behind the fence; the view of Lee Bowers of the escape of the two men behind the fence and the path the cars took as they left the parking lot; then possibly picking up each assassin from the docks of the TSBD and then the Dal-Tex building continuing on northerly away from downtown Dallas; The escape of the assassin from the Records building by surfacing up the street level elevator and walking down Houston street (possibly not using the elevator to emerge but rather for Jack Ruby to dissappear after viewing the assassination - as seen in Willis #8) then seeing the corner of Commerce St. where a Nash Rambler picked up a man (ref. "Three Assassins Killed Kennedy" Sat. Eve.Post) and watching the Nash Rambler continue down Record St. turning left onto Elm St. con- tinueing down to the Grassy Knoll where a man (Oswald or "Second Oswald") comes down the incline from the Southwest loading dock and gets into the car. All of these things could be supported by narrative explain- ing the testimony to support this curiously well fittin arrangement of the puzzle pieces. Intercut into the actual seene of the shots and that time period would be the view point of President Kennedy himself, as he saw the men behind the fenbe, dranatically augmented by the use of a 2001 technique and also the view of the man in the storn drain open- ing. Outs of the pictures in the Life Magazine photographs of the assassination from Zapruder, Hughes, Towner, Willis etcetera would give the film better senee of reality of the incident and would heln to locate the audience viewpoint. Finally, the showing of the blowums from the Moorman Photo without explanation, merely starting with the original photo in its entirety and proceeding 01 to the gradual devel- opaent of enlargement after enlargement would dranatically indict the audience to move from their apathetic uselessness to some sort of feel- ing which night cause them to aet on what they have seen.

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