The full cast (except LBJ) is slowly drifting around on the darkened, foggy, stage, in shock.

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RFK

What's at the heart

Of this matter?

 

JACKIE KENNEDY

I lost my man

 

LADY BIRD

(pointing off stage)

They lost their dad

 

RFK

Who could invent anything sadder?

 

JACKIE KENNEDY

We held it all

 

RFK

In the palm of our hands

 

ZEPHYR WRIGHT

Who'll glue us back again?

 

ALL

Who'll glue us? Now that we've fallen down

 

JACKIE KENNEDY

Off of the shelf

 

RFK

(Fallen) Down

 

JACKIE KENNEDY

Down with a crash

 

RFK

(Fallen) Down

 

JACKIE KENNEDY

Down to the floor

 

RFK

(Fallen) Shards

 

ZEPHYR WRIGHT

Of porcelain and glass

 

CABINET

All the king's horses

And all the king's men

 

JACKIE KENNEDY

All the king's daughters, too

Will you tell me who

 

ZEPHYR WRIGHT

Will glue us back together again?

Lights up on LBJ lying on the bed in the plane's Presidential suite. He is on the phone. Jackie's hatboxes are strewn around

 

LBJ

(shouting)

Look Bobby. It's legal, right? If it's done now? Here? On Air Force One

 

RFK (PHONE)

I mean, it's legal, I suppose. But Lyndon I'm not sure.

 

LBJ

(still shouting)

I agree with you! We gotta do this - Now!

 

RFK

But that's not what I said!

Jackie enters and is shocked to find LBJ in her bedroom

 

JACKIE KENNEDY

Oh!

 

LBJ hands up the phone, gets off the bed, and walks out to the larger room crowded with people

 

LBJ

(to everyone)

Bobby says to do it now. I need her by my side. No, not the judge - Jackie! I need you by my side more than ever.

 

LBJ gently positions Jackie to his right

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LBJ

You just stand right here, honey

 

LBJ puts his hand on the Bible and takes the oath in dumb show during the following

 

SOLDIER 1

What's at the heart

 

PROTESTER 1

Of this matter

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ZEPHYR WRIGHT

We were so young and pure

 

LADY BIRD

Heaven sent - heaven bound

 

The scene gradually morphs into JFK's funeral procession. Horse-drawn carriages with the casket covered in Old Glory

 

PROTESTER 1

How do we pull

 

SOLDIER

Pull out this dagger?

 

ZEPHYR WRIGHT

Now that we've lost

 

RFK

All that we'd found

 

ALL

Who'll glue us back again? Who'll glue us

Now that we've fallen

Down -

Off of the shelf

(Fallen) Down - down with a crash

(Fallen) down - down to the floor

(Fallen) Shards of porcelain and glass

All the king's horses and all the king's men

 

FEMALE PROTESTER

All the king's daughters, too

 

SOLDIER 1

Will you tell me who?

 

FEMALE PROTESTER

Will glue us back together again?

 

RFK

What's at the heart of this matter?

I lost my brother

 

ZEPHYR WRIGHT

We lost our way.

A nation once young

Now older and battered

 

PROTESTER AND SOLDIER

Is there another

To make it OK

 

ZEPHYR WRIGHT

(to audience)

Who are we now?

How will we recover?

 

LADY BIRD

Carry the torch

Show us the way

Lights up on the Capitol Building. LBJ enters from top, talking from a podium

 

LBJ

All that I have

I would give gladly

Not to be standing here

With you today

 

ALL

Who'll glue us back again? Who'll glue us

Now that we've fallen?

Down -

Off of the shelf

(Fallen) Down - down with a crash

(Fallen) down - down to the floor

(Fallen) shards of porcelain and glass

All the king's horses and all the king's men

 

JACKIE KENNEDY

All the king's daughters, too

 

RFK

Will you tell me who will glue us

Back together again?

 

Dark strains of the Shards Motif play on horns as light comes back up on House Chamber podium - we see the cast in the far background in shadow and LBJ standing in a pinspot, looking directly at the audience. His demeanor is serious, grim as he looks up, puts on his glasses, and slowly gives just a hint of a determined smile.