Quantum Leap1989

[Sam is worried about his mind merging with Lee Harvey Oswald]

Sam:
What if I assassinate the President?

Al:
You're not gonna assassinate the President. This is '57, that doesn't happen for another six years!

Sam:
Fifteen minutes ago, it was six years from now. And who's to say that's not gonna happen again, in November, with me at the Texas School Book Depository? Good God, Al. If that happened, I could stop the assassination.

Al:
If Oswald really was the assassin.

Sam:
What do you mean if Oswald was really the assassin?

Al:
Well, there's a lot of people think that he was set up.

Sam:
Set up? By whom?

Al:
Could have been anybody. Could've been the FBI, Secret Service, uh, CIA, the military, the Mafia, defense contractors, John Birchers, you name it. They all had something to gain from Kennedy's death.

Sam:
Al, we're talking about murdering the President of the United States.

Al:
Don't you remember all the conspiracy books and the movies?

Sam:
No. But I do remember that day in November like it was yesterday. I was ten and my dad was teaching me how to drive the tractor in the field behind the house. All of a sudden, Mom came out yelling at us. She ran up right to the fence and she was yellin' and we thought it was because of what we were doing. But then she told us that the President had just been shot.