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"Good, good, we are very excited for you to be on our staff." His use of the word we was getting cumbersome, but I bore with him. "Let me show you to your office. All of Dr. Czolgosz's files have been put in there already." Now we were getting somewhere. "'That's a Mannlicher-Carcano. 6.5 millimeter. Stopping range 900 yards. The sight's already been adjusted. . . . My name is John Wilkes Booth, Lee.` Ahem! 'My name is John Wilkes Booth, Lee.`" "Oh, that's my cue," said Dr. Guiteau. "He likes to have an Oswald for this part. 'John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln.`" "'Attention has been paid.`" "He's trying to convince Oswald to kill Kennedy, isn't he?" I asked Guiteau. "It's as if he's reading from a script." "You are good. That's exactly what he's doing. Like I said, I don't know how Dr. Czolgosz figured it out, but the things that Kibo says in the guise of John Wilkes Booth are from a Broadway musical called Assassins. He must have been exposed to it before he came here. In fact Dr Czolgosz's theory is that Kibo was as sane as you or I when he was exposed to it, and then some action shocked him into this persona." This will truly be an interesting subject.

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"Now Kibo, this is going to be different from your sessions with Dr. Czolgosz. First of--" "Please don't call me Kibo. My name is Johnny Booth." What the hell, what do I care. I'm going to undo all the progress Czolgosz made on this bozo for my own purposes, so I might as well let him have his way. "Of course it is. When we are alone I will call you John. But when we are in public, I must call you Kibo. Otherwise I might lose my job. Now you wouldn't want that." "No, of course I wouldn't. 'All you have to do is move your little finger, and you can change the world.`" "Now Johnny, let's make a deal. I will call you John when we are alone. I will not badger you with questions, but we will play games. You call me Sam, again only in private. In return you need to do some things for me though. First, do not quote lines from that play while we are alone in this office. Second, do not ever tell anyone what we do in here. And third, when we are in public, allow me to call you Kibo. You may correct others, but not me. This will show that I am succeeding with you. I'm tired of seeing you used for research the way they used you before, but if the hospital management found out that I had STOPPED using you like a lab animal, then they will take me off of your case." I'll have him eating out of my hand in no time. I'll look like a

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