Here in present day, in the plastic prison a quarter-mile underground, Lehnsherr refuses to divulge anything about the days leading up to Kennedy's assassination. In fact, he refuses to say anything at all.

This is expected. Lehnsherr rarely even speaks to his captors. But when he does, they listen. About 25 years ago, he told a facility correctional officer to visit the infirmary.

"It's killing you," Lehnsherr had said. "I can practically smell it."

The next day, the officer was diagnosed with hereditary hemochromatosis. Too much iron in the blood. He was reassigned.

Lehnsherr ignores the stream of questions, asked here in present day. Were the 1963 reports from Project: WideAwake true? (Project: WideAwake was the CIA task force Kennedy created days after Gen. Partridge's assassination to investigate other X-Gene cases.) Did Lehnsherr travel to Dallas in February to recruit Oswald? Was Partridge targeted because he'd learned too much about X-Gene mutants?

Lehnsherr's face is inscrutable.

Was Oswald recruited because of his Marxist leanings? By 1963, Oswald had concocted a concept for his own government. He claimed his "Atheian System" would abolish institutionalized discrimination and segregation. Was Oswald ideologically sympathetic to mutants? Did Lehnsherr convince him they had a common enemy in Partridge?

Lehnsherr blinks. Says nothing. But his eyes glimmer for a moment. Perhaps curious, perhaps amused or perhaps recollecting those dark days, fifty years ago.