JFK (1991)

Tommy Lee Jones: Clay Shaw

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• Jim Garrison : Mr. Shaw, have you ever been a contract agent with the Central Intelligence Agency?

  Clay Shaw aka Clay Bertrand : [smiles politely]  And if I was, Mr. Garrison... do you think I would be here today... talking to somebody like you?

• Clay Shaw aka Clay Bertrand : One likes friends who has friends.

  Dean Andrews : Indeed.

• Jim Garrison : Mr. Shaw, this is an Italian newspaper article saying you were a member of the Board of Centro Mondo Commerciale in Italy, that this company was a creature of the CIA for the transfer of funds in Italy for illegal political-espionage activities. It says that this company was expelled from Italy for those activities.

  Clay Shaw aka Clay Bertrand : I'm well aware of this asinine article. And I am thinking very seriously of suing this rag of a newspaper.

  Jim Garrison : It says that this company has heavily Fascist ties to the French secret army organization that tried to assassinate de Gaulle in 1960.

  Clay Shaw aka Clay Bertrand : Nonsense. What next?

  Jim Garrison : And that this company is linked to the Schlumber tool company here in Houma, Louisiana - which is where their arms may have come from to David Ferrie and his Cubans.

  Clay Shaw aka Clay Bertrand : [chuckles]  Mr. Garrison, you're reaching. I am an international businessman. The Trade Mart which I founded is America's commercial pipeline to Latin America. I trade everywhere. I am accused, as are all businessmen, of all things. I somehow go about my business, make money, help society the best I can and try to promote free trade in this world.

• Irvin F. Dymond : [cross-examining Shaw]  Oswald?

  Clay Shaw aka Clay Bertrand : No, I did not.

  Irvin F. Dymond : Ever called Dean Andrews?

  Clay Shaw aka Clay Bertrand : No, I did not.

  Irvin F. Dymond : And have you ever met David Ferrie?

  Clay Shaw aka Clay Bertrand : No, I would not even know what he looked like except for the pictures I've been shown.

  Irvin F. Dymond : Did you ever use the alias Clay Bertrand?

  Clay Shaw aka Clay Bertrand : No, I did not.

  Irvin F. Dymond : Thank you, Mr. Shaw!

  Jim Garrison : Well, a very great actor has just given us a great performance, Your Honor, but we are nowhere closer to the truth. Let it be noted, my office is charging Clay Shaw with outright perjury on the fifteen answers he has given, not one word of this

  Judge Haggerty : [yelling]  You're out of order, Jim Boy, now sit down!