Characters

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