The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy [223]
UM #2: That is true. I sub-contract to you because you okies, no offense, think and hate like we do.
UM #1: If Nigger King walked in here right now, I’d kill him.
UM #2: I’d fight you for the right. King and Bobby Kennedy, those are the shitbirds I hate. Bobby fucked and fucked and fucked and fucked and fucked and fucked the Outfit until we had no place left to bleed. King’s doing the same thing right now. He’ll fuck this country in the keester and fuck us and fuck us and fuck us and fuck and fuck us and fuck us while the other boogies overbreed and turn this country into a welfare-state shithole.
UM #1: I’m 3rd-generation Klan. There, I said it, and you ain’t shocked. You may take your orders from Rome, but I don’t care. You’re a white man, just like me.
UM #2: Fuck you. I take my orders from a fat dago with a pinkie ring.
(Non-applicable conversation follows.)
DOCUMENT INSERT: 5/28/67. Bug-extract transcript. Marked: “Confidential”/“Stage-1 Covert”/“Eyes Only”: Director, SA D. C. Holly.
Location: Card room/Grapevine Tavern/St. Louis/listening-post-accessed. Speaking: Norbert Donald Kling & Rowland Mark DeJohn, paroled felons (Armed Robbery/Bunco/GTA) & presumed organized-crime associates. (Conversation 3.9 minutes in progress.)
NDK: … like a kitty, I mean.
RMDJ: I get it. Guys pitch in, you watch the kitty grow.
NDK: We don’t pitch in. Guys with real coin do, until you got a big enough pot to attract a guy who can do it.
RMDJ: Right. It’s a bounty. The word goes out that it’s there, you do the job, you prove you did it, you collect.
NDK: Right. You attract a pro, and he gets away with it. It’s not like Oswald, you know, with Kennedy.
RMDJ: Oswald was a Commie and a psycho. He wanted to get caught.
NDK: Right. And people loved Kennedy.
RMDJ: Well, some people. Personally, I hated the son-of-a-bitch.
NDK: You know what I’m saying. With King you got a nigger that everyone hates. The only white people who don’t hate him are some Jews and pinkos, but every other white person knows that integration will put this country in the toilet, so you get rid of Public Nuisance Number One and nip that eventuality in the bud.
RMDJ: He’s dead, the country rejoices.
NDK: You put the word out. That’s the thing.
RMDJ: Yeah, the bounty.
NDK: We ain’t got the scratch, but there’s guys around here who do.
RMDJ: He’s begging for it.
NDK: That’s the part I like. You beg for it, you get it.
(Non-applicable conversation follows.)
DOCUMENT INSERT: 6/14/67. Hate-mail extract. Compiled by: FATHER RABBIT. Sealed and marked: “Destroy Without Reading in the Event of My Death.”
Mail sender: Anonymous. Postmark: Pasadena, California. Recipient: Senator Robert F. Kennedy. From page 1 (of 19):
DEAR SENATOR KENNEDY,
I KNOW THAT YOU & THE ZIONIST WORLDWIDE PIG ORDER HAVE PUT THE PUS IN THE JEWISH CANCER MACHINE AND GAVE ME HEADACHES, NOT FALLS FROM HORSES AS DR’S BELIEVE. YOU SAY THAT ALLAH DRIVES AN IMPALA BUT I KNOW THAT THE JEWISH CONTROL APPARATUS CONTROLS AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION IN DETROIT AND BEVERLY HILLS. YOU ARE A PUS PUPPET IN THE CONTROL OF THE JEWISH VAMPIRE AND MUST STOP EMITTING HEADACHES IN THE NAME OF THE CHIEF RABBI OF LODZ AND MIAMI BEACH AND THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION.
DOCUMENT INSERT: 7/5/67. Hate-mail extract. Compiled by: FATHER RABBIT. Sealed and marked: “Destroy Without Reading in the Event of My Death.”
Mail sender: Anonymous. Postmark: St. Louis, Missouri. Recipient: Dr. M. L. King. From page 1 (of 1):
Dear Nigger,
You better fear the ides of July and June;
There’s going to be a bounty on you, Coon;
You’re a traitor and a Commie and an evil ape;
All you do is lie, steal and rape;
But