'Quantum' will leap into lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, Nixon

By DUSTY SAUNDERS at the time that Oswald was 'kind of Scripps Howard News Service crazy but harmless.' Well, history 4 has proven that Oswald was anything The quantum leaps are turning into but harmless." historical vaults. The script in which Sam becomes During the three seasons of Nixon is still being worked on. PA "Quantum Leap," Scott Bakula has leaped into the bodies of athletes, "Now that we're an established teachers, Broadway performers, series, we can take a few more cowboys, even women. liberties with our scripts," Bellisario But this fall, on at least two pro- says. grams, Bakula, as Sam Beckett, will Other "Quantum Leap" plots for vault into two real-life characters - the fall season: Lee Harvey Oswald and Richard — A two-person show featuring a S Nixon. romantic interlude on an island with The Oswald tale — a two-hour Bakula and Brooke Shields, a la her special kicking off the season in "Blue Lagoon" movie. September — is a result of a brief — A three-part episode dealing association that executive producer. with a murder mystery in a small creator Don Bellisario had with the town. accused assassin when the two were — An hour that's completely ani- in the same Marine unit in 1958. mated. "Like most Americans, I watched — A series of programs featuring all aspects of the Kennedy assassi- an "evil leaner" — an attractive nation on television," Bellisario woman who wants to harm people . recalls. "And I was shocked when I rather than help them. realized I knew Lee Harvey Oswald. — And an episode in which Bakula "He was a strange duck. . . . I gets involved with Dr. Ruth recall some of my Marine pals saying Westheimer.