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Fae renee coe cement ened ainsi, BS Amatmpmatetapatit. wee UheV = ARE Ahem Darin 2 RINE Bate ae ee . LIST ee ee rE eT a a . \ : _ THE PERJURIES . . OF ” f . EDWARD'M, KENNEDY’ . ra When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one person to charge another with perjury, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that the accuser should de- clare the causes for making such accusations. & Here goes. . PERJURY No. 1 (p. 6) ; . After hedging, the Senator yielded to the persistence of Mr. Dinis and admitted that the front window on his side had been. open. Shortly thereafter, in his account of events immediatelv ollowing the plunge into the pond (p. 7), he stated, “I can re- . member...feeling along the side to see if the window was open and - the window was closed." Then, in the middle of page 8, he again said it was open. Kennedy admirers may be moved to explain these several self-contradictions as merely evidence of understandable uncertainty of memory and that he had been merely “correcting him- self." Indeed, Mr. Kennedy had evidently forgotten that in the ; statement given to Chief Arena the morning of July 19th, purport- _ed@ly giving the basic facts of the "accident" and to which he at- tested as to accuracy (see page 17 herein), he said, “I attempted to open the door and window of the car...", thus clearly implying. that the window was closed. Scuba diver John Farrar testified that he found the front -window on the driver's side open (The Inguest, pp. 78 and- 80). PERJURY No. 2 (p. 6) Senator Kennedy stated he had been driving approximately 20 miles per hour. (This was supported by Inspector George W. Ken- nedy (no relation to the Senator, he claimed), supervisor of the - Registry of Motor Vehicles in Oak Bluffs, at the other end of Mar- tha's Vineyard, in his testimony, which will be examined later.) At 20 miles per hour, the rate is slightly more than. 29 _ feet per second. Further in his testimony (The Inquest, p. 80), John Farrar stated that he had made some meesurements "...as to the position of the car from the ‘point of impact, the height of, fall and the height of the water. ... The measurements of the po- sition of the car with relationship to the bridge and the marks I found to be a projectory {sic -- trajectory?) or a distance from the point of impact to the car of approximately 36 feet and a drop of approximately eight feet. (The 36 feet) would be the point mea~ | = 20 -