Like something out of Greek tragedy, the stage was set, the actors were in their places, and all that was left was to await the fate fixed dénouement.  As arranged during a series of clandestine telephone calls, Elvis and Lee Harvey Oswald met in the lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository at 11:30 AM.  Oswald had already arranged the "snipers' pit" overlooking Dealey Plaza, and enthusiastically assured Elvis that the location and the weapons were ready.  But to his chagrin, rather than receive Elvis' thanks he was informed that his services were no longer needed, and that Elvis, alone, would dispatch JFK.   Elvis reminded him of the botched assassination of Maj. Gen. Edwin Anderson Walker, and advised Oswald that this time he wasn't taking any chances.   Asking Elvis what he should then do, Elvis suggested that he leave the area and go see a movie.  Dejected, Oswald left Dealey Plaza, boarded a bus, and headed across town to the Texas Theater, which featured a 1:00 PM show.

Meanwhile in Dealey Plaza the other actors took their places.  Elvis' bodyguard, Bobby Gene "The Dragon" West positioned himself on the parade route with an umbrella and a tape recorder with Elvis' rendition of "It's Now or Never" on the tape.  Three other bodyguards dressed as hobos, Alan "Hog Ears" Fortas, Charles Franklin "Slewfoot" Hodges, and Joseph "Diamond Joe" Esposita, protected the escape route on the railroad tracks.  Elvis positioned himself on the sixth floor with the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle Oswald had acquired with the assistance of Carlos Marcello, and awaited the Kennedy motorcade.

At 12:00 noon the motorcade entered Dealey Plaza.  West, using a prearranged signal to alert the others, opened his umbrella and started the tape recording.   Elvis adjusted the sights of the rifle as the motorcade turned onto Elm Street.  Using the skills he learned while serving in the U.S.Army, Elvis patiently waited until he had a clear shot.  Finally he had Kennedy focused in the cross hairs, and fired.  Managing to fire off two more rounds before the motorcade was out of his range, Elvis dropped the rifle, made his way out of the Depository, and proceeded to the train tracks where he was placed on a freight train by his co-conspirators and spirited away.  Fortas, Hodges, and Esposita were later detained and interrogated by the Dallas Police Department, but managed to convince them that they were nothing more than transients who were at the wrong place at the wrong time.  West, using false identification, convinced both the Dallas and F.B.I. authorities that he was a Lewis Wilt, and that the umbrella was a political comment comparing Kennedy to British statesman, Neville Chamberlain.

At the same time a deranged Oswald was debarking his bus.  On the way to the Texas Theater he was stopped by Officer J.D.Tippit of the Dallas police, who bore an uncanny resemblance to Elvis.  Transferring his anger from Elvis to Tippit, Oswald shot him repeatedly and proceeded to the theater.  The incident, as well as Oswald's behavior inside of the theater, was reported to the Dallas Police, who shortly thereafter arrested Oswald.  Initially Oswald was certain he was under arrest for the slaying of Tippit, but quickly divined that he was implicated in the assassination of JFK.  Realizing his need for powerful allies he contacted Ann-Margret for help.  But ever the forward thinking partisan, Ann-Margret had already arranged for a La Costa Nostra associate, Jacob "Jack Ruby" Rubenstein, to silence Oswald.  With Oswald's death was killed the last chance for definitive proof of the Elvis-JFK connection, and the world was left to speculate on the truth behind the events of 22 November 1963.