Voices

We've all become Hamlets in our country,
children of a slain father-leader...
...whose killers still possess the throne.

The ghost of John F. Kennedy confronts us with
the secret murder at the heart of the American Dream.
He forces on us the appalling questions:
Of what is our Constitution made?
What are our lives worth?
What is the future of a democracy where a President
can be assassinated under suspicious circumstances
while the machinery of legal action scarcely trembles?
How many more political murders disguised as
heart attacks suicides, cancers, drug overdoses?
How many plane and car crashes will occur
before they are exposed for what they are?

"Treason doth never prosper," wrote an English poet.
What's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
The American public has yet to see the Zapruder film.
Why?
The American public has yet to see
the real X-rays and autopsy photographs.
Why?
Hundreds of documents could help prove this conspiracy.
Why are they being withheld or burned by the government?
When my office or you, the people,
asked those questions, demanded evidence...
...the answer from on high has always been:
national security.

What kind of national security do we have
when we're robbed of our leaders?
What national security permits the removal...
...of fundamental power from the people and
validates the ascendancy of an invisible government
in the Unite States?
The kind of national security is...
...when it smells like it,
feels like it,
and looks like it...
you call it what it is: Fascism!

I submit to you that
what took place on November 22,1963 was a coup d'etat.
Its most direct and tragic result...
...was the reversal of Kennedy's decision
to withdraw from Vietnam.
The war is the biggest business in America...
...worth $80 billion a year.
President Kennedy was murdered
by a conspiracy planned
at the highest levels of our government...
...carried out
by fanatical and disciplined cold warriors...
...in the Pentagon and CIA's covert-operationapparatus.
Among them, Clay Show, here before you.
It was a public execution,
and it was covered up by like-minded people
in the Dallas Police，
the Secret Service,
the FBI,
and the White House up to and including
J. Edgar Hoover, and Lyndon Johnson
who were accomplices after the fact.
The assassination
reduced the President to a transient official.
His job is to speak as often as possible
of the nation's desire for peace
while he acts as a business agent in the Congress
for the military and their contractors.

Some people say I'm crazy.
Southern caricature seeking higher office.
There's a simple way to determine if I am paranoid.
Ask the two men who profited most
from the assassination former President Johnson
and your new President, Nixon...
...to release the 51 CIA documents
pertaining to Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby.
Or the secret CIA memo on Oswald's activities in Russia
that was destroyed while being Photo copied.
These documents are yours.
The people's property.
You pay for it.
But as the government sees you as children...
...who might be too disturbed to face this reality...
...or because you might lynch those involved...
...you can not see these documents for another 75 years.

I'm in my 40s...
...so I'll have "shuffled off this mortal coil" by then.
But I'm telling my eight-year-old son
to keep himself physically fit...
...so that one glorious September morning, in 2038...
...he can go to the National Archives
and learn what the CIA and FBI knew.
They may push it back then.
It may become a generational affair.
Questions passed from parent to child.
But someday,
somewhere,
someone may find out the damn truth.
We better.
Or we might just as well build
ourselves another government...
...like the Declaration of Independence says to,
when the old one don't work.
Just a bit farther out West.

An American naturalist wrote:
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country...
...against its government."
I'd hate to be in your shoes today.
You have a lot to think about.
You've seen evidence the public hasn't seen.

Going back to when we were children...
...I think most of us in this courtroom
thought justice came automatically.
That virtue was its own reward.
That good triumphs over evil.
But as we get older we know this isn't true.
Individual human beings have to create justice,
and this is not easy...
...because the truth often poses a threat to power...
...and one often has to fight power
at great risk to themselves.
People like
S.M. Holland Lee Bowers...
...Jean Hill, Willie O'Keefe...
...have all taken that risk
and they've all come forward.

I have here some $8,000 in these letters...
...sent from all over the country.
Quarters, dimes, dollars from housewives...
...plumbers, car salesmen, teachers, invalids.
These are people
who can not afford to send money but do.
People who drive cars....
..who nurse in hospitals...
...who see their kids go to Vietnam.
Why?
Because they care.
Because they want to know the truth.
Because they want their country back.
Because it still belongs to us
as long as the people have the guts to
fight for what they believe in.
The truth is the most important value we have,
because if it doesn'tendure...
...if the government murders truth...
...if we can not respect these people...
...then this is not the country I was born in,
or the country I want to die in.

Tennyson wrote:
"Authority forgets a dying king."
This was never more true than for John F. Kennedy
whose murder was probably one of the most terrible moments
in the history of our country.
We, the people,
the jury system sitting in judgment on Clay Show...
...represent the hope...
...of humanity against government power.
In discharging your duty...
...to bring a first conviction
in this house of cards against Clay Shaw...
"...ask not what your country can do for you...
...but what you can do for your country."
Do not forget...
...your dying king.
Show this world...
...this is still a government
"of the people,by the people and for the people."
Nothing as long as you live will ever be more important.
It's up to you.



中文对照

我们都变成了我们国家的哈姆雷特，
父亲被人谋杀，杀手却仍然掌权。

在我们内心的美国梦中，
肯尼迪的鬼魂与我们相遇，
他逼我们悚然质问：
我们的宪法奠定了什么？
我们生命的价值是什么？
总统在可疑的环境下被暗杀，司法机构却无动于衷，这种民主的未来是什么？
有多少更多的政治谋杀，会被掩饰成心脏病、自杀、癌症和吸毒过量？！
有多少飞机汽车会失事在事情暴露的前夜？！

一首英国的诗中写道：
“背信弃义绝不会成功。”
什么原因？
因为如果成功就没有人敢称之为背信弃义。
美国民众还从没有看过Zapruder影片，
为什么？
美国民众还从没看到真的X光片和验尸照片，
为什么？
几百份有助于证实这个阴谋的资料为什么被官方扣押烧毁？
当本办事处和人民问到这些问题并要求证实的时候，

高层的回答永远是：“国家安全。”

当我们的领袖都惨遭横祸，还会有什么样的国家安全？！
什么样的国家安全允许改变
来自人民的基本权利，和认同一个看不见的美国政府的权势存在？

那样的国家安全，
当它闻起来如此，
感觉上如此，
看起来如此，
你们就可以称它为：法西斯主义！

我要提出的就是，
1963年11月22日发生的事件是一场政变，
它最直接和最具悲剧性的后果是驳回了肯尼迪从越南撤军的决定。

战争是美国最大的生意，
它价值一年八百亿美元
肯尼迪总统被由官方层层策划的阴谋所杀害
由狂热受训的冷战战士执行，
他们来自国防部和中情局掩饰行动组而他们之中，
就有我们面前的克莱·萧。
这是一场公然执行的枪决，
由来自于达拉斯警察局、秘密勤务局、联邦调查局和白宫的人所掩盖，
包括胡佛，约翰逊，我相信他们在该事件后成为共犯。

暗杀使总统成为过渡官员，
新总统的任务就是每当他在国会扮演厂商、军事或承包人代理时
尽可能地高谈国家对和平的渴望。

有人说我发了疯，
一个南方小丑在捞政治本钱。
这里有个简单的方法来决定我是否有偏执狂。

让两位从暗杀得利最多的人，前总统约翰逊和现任总统尼克松
公布51号中情局档案
包括李·奥斯瓦尔德和杰克·鲁比
或翻照时毁损的中情局有关奥斯华在俄活动的秘密备忘录。

这些文件是你们的，
是人民的财产，
你们付了钱的！
但官方视你们为小孩子
认为你们面对真相会受到困扰
或因为你们会制裁那些牵涉
所以你们需要另一个75年之后才能看到这些资料。

我已经四十多岁了
到那时候我将不在这个世上，
但我告诉我八岁的儿子，
要他保持健康
以便在2038年9月一个灿烂的早上走进国家档案库
找出中情局和调查局所知道的真相。

但他们或许把时间再次延后
变成代代相传的事，
疑问由父母传给子女
但总有一天有一个人会在什么发现那该死的真相！

最好是这样
不然我们或许只好自己建立另一个政府
像独立宣言所说当旧的政府妨害人民时，
就需要取而代之。

一位美国自然主义者写过
爱国者要经常准备为保卫国家
而对抗政府
我很不情愿处在你们今天的位置，
因为你们看到了公众看不到的证据。

回想起童年（所受的教育）
我想大多数人认为正义是自然降临的，
善有善报，
正义必然会战胜邪恶。

但我们越长大就越知道这不是真的
每个人都要树立正义，
而这并不容易因为真理常常受到权势的威胁，
我们经常要冒很大风险与权势战斗。

有很多人，
像霍兰，李·鲍尔
珍·希尔，威里·欧奇夫
都是冒着极大的风险前来作证

我这里有个信封，
里面大约有八千美元
是从全国各地寄来的，
有两毛五，一毛，一元
……来自家庭主妇，水管工，汽车销售员，老师，残疾人。
他们掏不起钱但他们却掏了。
这里面有人是开车的
有在医院当护士的
他们看着自己的儿子被送去越南
为什么？
因为他们在乎。
因为他们要知道真相
因为他们想要找回他们的国家
因为只要我们仍然为自己的信仰而斗争，
这个国家就仍是属于我们的。

真理是我们拥有的最重要的价值，
因为如果它不再存续
如果政府掩盖事实
如果我们不能尊敬这些人
那么这不是我愿意生于斯死于斯的国家。

丹尼逊写道：
当权者遗忘了垂死的国王

可以真切地说，
肯尼迪的谋杀是我们国家历史中最恐怖的一刻。
我们，人民陪审团，坐在这里审判克莱·萧
代表着人性的希望
来对抗政府权势。
来尽我们的义务

对克莱·萧 作第一次的定罪
不要问你的国家能为你做些什么
要问问你能为你的国家做些什么
不要忘记你们垂死的国王
让全世界知道
这仍然是一个民有、民治、民享的政府。

在我们的有生之年，没有比这更重要的了。
全看你们的了。



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真正的爱国者，在所处的时代想必都是极难留下美名的吧。
我们常说历史能记下所有真实。
但是有什么记得恐龙的历史，记得史前文明的历史？
当历史变成飞灰，我们亦什么都不会留下。

或许一切都是如此，到头来我们都是用白色墨水写下的诗歌。
无人知晓，就无人传唱。
人皆过客，匆匆地品尝了苦与甜，又再匆匆地离开，什么也不带来，什么也不带走。