”Take a Look, Lee” Broadway Cast of Assassins (Ft. Alexander Gemignani, Becky Ann Baker, Denis O'Hare, James Barbour, Jeffrey Kuhn, Mario Cantone, Mary Catherine Garrison, Michael Cerveris & Neil Patrick Harris)

[RADIO ANNOUNCER, spoken]
And now the motorcade is turning into Elm Street. There's someone holding up a banner, "All The Way With JFK". The President is smiling and waving as his car heads for Dealey Plaza where it will swing past the Texas Book Depository and onto the trademark where—

[BOOTH, spoken]
Take a look, Lee. Do you know what that is? That is America. A land where any kid can grow up to be President. The shining city, Lee. It shines so bright you have to shade your eyes. But in here, this is America too. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation". An American said that and he was right. Well let me tell you something, there are no lives of quiet desperation in here. Desperation, yes. But quiet? I don't think so. Not today. Today we are going to make a joyful noise. This is the big one. You are the big one. You are the one who's gonna sum it all up and blow it all wide open. I have seen the future, Lee, and you are it.​ 

[LEE, spoken]
People will hate me.​ 

[BOOTH, spoken]
They will hate you with a passion, Lee. Imagine people having passionate feelings about Lee Harvey Oswald.​ 

Somebody help me!

[ZANGARA steps forward, speaking Italian. The ASSASSINS translate.]

[MOORE, spoken]
Please we beseech you...

[CZOLGOSZ, spoken]
We are the hopeless ones. The lost ones...

[GUITEAU, spoken]
We live our lives in exile...

[BYCK, spoken]
Expatriates in our own country...