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calls alleged to have been made--four of them.. (Who accepted those calls at a business office at those hours? Or is there one af _ those nighttime automatic switching devices that relays incoming -Calls to another number?) And then there was the acknowledged call, to Mr. Smith and the two the Graphic claims were made. ppose we take this 9:01 call and develop it from the stand- all visible ramifications. The Senator admitted having @ Call after eight o'clock to Mr. Smith to find out Burke Marshali's telephone number (after having made four earlier ones) from the public telephone at the Shiretown Inn. Did this reguire eleven minutes? Assuming complete error on the part of the Graphic for the sake of argument ‘for the moment, did the Senator never hear of calling Directory Assistance: (formerly "Information") to obtain C: telephone numbers in distant cities? It's easy. You dial: (area -eode) 555-1212. Instructions are usually in every public telephone booth or on the telephone instrument. This call. matches with the Graphic. At 9:12, Messrs. Kennedy, Gargan and Markham sprinted to the ferry slip just down the street, and arrived there probably by. 9:15, where the ferry was luckily waiting. This is close enough to ferry operator Ralph Hewitt's estimate of "in the vicinity of 9:00 o'clock" as the time’ the triumvirate came aboard. - (Would anyone | like to guess why both Messrs. Gargan and Markham were necessary a: traveling companions to make a phone call?) The ferry run is no more than 200 yards across, and even if the current was swift on ' that crossing we could expect an arrival and debarking at Chappa- .quiddick of no later than 9:20-9:25. Now we add the "20 minstes or so" Mr. Hewitt says they were “just milling around" on the point over there and we get 9:45 as the latest for casting off, Edgartown- bonnd. This would. allow time for the Senater to reach the Police C Station, as he guessed, “some time before 10:00." It is also very ynear the ferry slin, But we have to go back to Chappaquiddick and we have to review .@ little in past testimony now. At the opening of the Afternoon Ses- sion, Mr. Kennedy said he had made a phone call from Chappaouiddick with-the “intention of reaching Mr. Burke Marshall", but that he hac hot reached him. Now let's go back to the discussion of ‘Anomly § (p. 43) and recall the Court asking Mr. Hewitt if he saw anyone use _the telephone. “No, I didn't", was the reply, although they were "within 50 feet of the telephone." The defense against this is so simple that the Senator's chief counsel at the inquest, Edward RB. Hanify, Esq., would doubtless delegate it to a junior associate: Senator Kennedy had not been ynder constant surveillance by Mr. Hew~_ itt during this period and the call had been made, or attempted, during one of the several runs back to Edgartown that had been ack- nowledged and when Mr. Hewitt obviously could not have obserwed it. ~ Ah, so. Nolo contendere. But did this take 20 minutes? Now we must reach ahead for bits of the testimony of Messrs. | Gargan and Markham regarding this signal event. With Mr. Gargan on ~ the stand, Mr. Dinis asked: 23/ . _ Q: Wow, did you have any conversation with the Senator and Mr. Markham on the Chappaquiddick landing that morning? - | A: No, not to any great degree. The Senator did all the talk- ,