The original theatrical prints begin with a title card reading: "Why gun control? Why did a lunatic sniper kill or maim 11 innocent victims in Texas on June 3, 1966? Why were over 7,000 Americans slain or wounded by gunfire in 1967? Why in 1968 after assassinations and thousands of more murders has our country no effective gun control law? This motion picture tells a story that sheds a little light on a very dark and a very deep topic." This text was added by Paramount Pictures in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, but was not approved by director Peter Bogdanovich, and was removed from later releases of the film.