Profile in Silver
| "Profile in Silver" | |
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| The Twilight Zone (1985 series) episode | |
Scene from "Profile in Silver"
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 20a |
| Directed by | John Hancock |
| Written by | J. Neil Schulman |
| Original air date | March 7, 1986 |
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Barbara Baxley: Dr. Kate Wang |
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Barbara Baxley: Dr. Kate Wang
Jerry Hardin: Lyndon B. Johnson
Ken Hill: Presidential aide
Huck Liggett: Texan
Lane Smith: Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald
Louis Giambalvo: Livingstone
Andrew Robinson: John F. Kennedy
"Profile in Silver" is the first segment of the twentieth episode of the first season (1985–86) of the television series The Twilight Zone.
Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald, a Harvard University professor of history from the year 2172, has travelled back in time and assumed the identity of an instructor at Harvard from 1961 to 1963. In the privacy of his office, Fitzgerald is visited by Dr. Kate Wang, a colleague from his own time. They discuss his mission, which is to observe the assassination of John F. Kennedy, from whom he is descended.
Fitzgerald is understandably nervous about watching his own ancestor be murdered, especially since he never got to know the man himself; he has met Kennedy only once. Wang reassures Fitzgerald that every field historian has moments of doubt such as this. When she departs for their home time, she says something that Fitzgerald does not quite catch. He decides to get it over with and journeys to Dealey Plaza in Dallas. However, when he glances up to the Texas School Book Depository and sees Lee Harvey Oswald raise a gun to kill Kennedy, Fitzgerald is unable to stand by and watch the killing. He intervenes and saves the president's life, shouting for the president and his entourage to take cover. Oswald fires anyway, but misses, and is later arrested by Dallas police.
A grateful President Kennedy (Andrew Robinson) invites Fitzgerald to stay at the White House. As Kennedy and his entourage return home, the president is notified that Soviet troops have captured West Berlin. Fitzgerald is astonished, and claims that Khrushchev would never do such a thing. Kennedy sadly points out that Khrushchev was assassinated earlier that day.
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