Lyndon Johnson
J. Edgar Hoover
Clyde Tolson
John Dillinger
Melvin Purvis
Job Interviewer
Pretty Boy Floyd
Ohio State Highway Patrolman
Baby Face Nelson
A lynched black man
An office secretary
A woman bound and gagged
Scene 1: October 1966
The White House Oval Office
Scene 2: March 1, 1960
The home of J. Edgar Hoover
Scene 3: February 29, 1960
A fathomless void
Scene 4: Spring 1959
An office at KSBC radio, Florence, South Carolina
Scene 5: January 1935
An office of the U.S. Division of Investigation, Chicago
Scene 6: October 22, 1934
A cornfield near Wellsville, Ohio
Scene 7: May 1934
A hotel suite on Little Star Lake, Wisconsin
An ellipsis […] beginning a line is meant to suggest a pause.
You may break your heart; but men will go on as before.
—Marcus Aurelius