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"“Captain Westbrook – Following Orders”
A Ciphered Past short film.

In the aftermath of President Kennedy’s assassination, Dallas fell into chaos. Sirens raged, rumors spread faster than facts, and pressure mounted on every officer in the city. In this short, we step inside the mind of Captain W.R. Westbrook — a man whose quiet role inside the Dallas Police Department’s Personnel Bureau placed him at the crossroads of one of the most controversial arrests in American history.

From the report of Officer J.D. Tippit’s murder, to the jacket behind the Texaco station, to the confusion at Tenth & Patton, to the lights inside the Texas Theater… Westbrook was there. And the evidence surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald seemed to fall into place almost too neatly. A jacket. A wallet. A revolver. A name.

This short offers a noir-style retelling of the whirlwind decisions, the shadows, and the unanswered questions that still linger decades later. It does not claim guilt or innocence — instead, it explores the tension between duty, pressure, and the narratives that form when a city demands answers faster than the truth can arrive.

Was Oswald a killer?
A patsy?
Or simply the name chosen to fill the paperwork that night?

This is not a verdict.
This is a moment — as seen through the eyes of a man standing in the middle of a storm he never expected.

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