UM #2: Phil says there's a contract out. You know, a bounty. Like Steve McQueen in "Wanted Dead or Alive."
UM #1: I heard that story. You clip that nigger, you make 50 grand. It's a story I don't believe for one second.
UM #3: That's right. Some cracker clips King, he comes to the Grapevine and says, "Pay me." Everybody says, "Why? It was just a fucking rumor, and the nigger's dead, anyway."
(Non-applicable conversation follows.)
DOCUMENT INSERT: 9/1/67. Listening-post report. Marked: "Confidential" / "Stage-1 Covert" / "Eyes Only": Director, SA D. C. Holly.
Location: Suite 301/El Encanto Hotel/Santa Barbara/listeningpost-accessed.
Sirs, As per the last 9 monitoring periods (4/2/67 to date), Subject RFK was not in residence at the target location. Subject RFK rents the suite on a yearly basis & it remains empty during his absences. The (voice-activated) mounts have thus far picked up only the non-applicable conversations of El Encanto caretakers & other employees. Per orders, the listening post will continue to be manned full-time.
Respectfully, SA C. W. Brundage
DOCUMENT INSERT: 9/9/67. Bug-extract transcript. Marked: "Confidential" / "Stage-1 Covert" / "Eyes Only": Director, SA D. C. Holly.
Location: Banquet room/Sal's Trattoria Restaurant/New York City/listening-post-accessed. Speaking: Robert "Fat Bob" Paolucci & Carmine Paolucci, organized-crime associates. (Conversation 31.8 minutes in progress.)
RP: You are seeing the fall of civilization as we know it.
CP: It's just a phase. It's like the Twist and the Hula Hoop. Right now, the shvoogs want their civil rights, so they burn a few buildings and make some woop-dee-doo. You want to stop all this riot bullshit? Give every shvoog in the country an air-conditioner and some Thunderbird Wine and let them ride out the heat in style.
RP: It's more than the heat that gets them agitated. It's that King and his soul brother Bobby Kennedy. They get them seeing things that ain't there. They give them an excuse that they can pin their shitty fucking lives on, like "the white man fucked you, so what's his is yours." You get ten million fucking people thinking like that, and maybe one in ten acts, so you got a million angry niggers out for white scalps like fucking Cochise and Pocahontas.
CP: Yeah. I see what you mean.
RP: Someone should clip King and Bobby. You would save a million white lives, minimum.
CP: I dig you. You save lives in the long run.
RP: You clip those cocksuckers. You do it and save the world as we know it.
(Non-applicable conversation follows.)
DOCUMENT INSERT: 9/16/67. Bug-extract transcript. Marked: "Confidential"/"Stage-1 Covert"/"Eyes Only": Director, SA D. C. Holly.
Location: Card room/Grapevine Tavern/St. Louis/listeningpost-accessed. Speaking: Unidentified Males #1 & #2, presumed organized-crime associates. (Conversation 17.4 minutes in progress).
UM #1: He saw it. My brother, I mean. He's in the National Guard.
UM #2: But that's Detroit. You got a higher ratio of spooks to whites there.
UM #1: Don't tell me it can't happen and won't happen everywhere else. Don't tell me it won't happen, because it will. You trace everywhere Martin Luther Coon goes and you see pins in the map that mark dead white people.
UM #2: That's true. You got Watts, you got Detroit, you got D.C. You got riots in our nation's capital.
UM #1: You also got the bounty. I realize that it's something like half real-- UM #2: Yeah, at best, because-- UM #1: Because it don't matter as long as Joe Patriot thinks it's real and does the job.
UM #2: Pow. He does the job. That's the goddamn thing.
UM #1: You got to believe there's more bounties out there. Myth or not, it just takes one guy to believe.
UM #2: Coon's a dead man. It's--what's that word?
UM #1: Inevitable?
UM #2: Yeah, right.
UM #1: We outnumber the niggers. Like 20 to 1. That's why I think it'll happen.
(Non-applicable conversation follows.)
DOCUMENT INSERT: 9/21/67. Las Vegas Sun headline and subhead:
HUGHES BUYS SANDS.
PAYS $23,000,000 FOR HOTEL-CASINO.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 9/23/67. Las Vegas Sun headline and subhead:
HUGHES ON ROLL.
BILLIONAIRE RECLUSE EYES CASTAWAYS AND FRONTIER.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 9/26/6 7. Las Vegas Sun headline and subhead:
LAS VEGANS PRAISE HUGHES:.
HE'S KING O' THE STRIP!.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 9/28/67. Los Angeles Examiner subhead:
KING ESCALATES ATTACKS ON "IMPERIALIST" WAR.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 9/30/67. St. Louis Globe-Democrat subhead:
RFK ECHOES KING: DECRIES WAR IN SPEECH.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 10/1/67. San Francisco Chronicle subhead:
RFK MUM ON PREZ'L PLANS.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 10/2/67. Los Angeles Times headline and subhead:
NIXON TO PRESS:.
KEEPING '68 OPTIONS OPEN.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 10/3/67. Washington Star subhead:
SOURCES CITE LBJ'S "CONSTERNATION":.
PREZ PUZZLED OVER KING'S BROADSIDES AGAINST WAR.