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-tinent.” had left the key inside ané closed the cocr and Joe went dwn and got another key and returned. - ; + . If ¢aés portion of Mr. Markham's testimony is the truth, the. whole uth and nothing but the truth, and if the Senator's Iscking himselfMout of his room (who doesn't do this occasionally?) m@i- .,.- cates cpnfused behavior and impaired judgment, then we must acept Dr. Watt's opinion without question. ; With-further reference to Dr. Watts and his affidavit, and to™” strive to match Senator Kennedy's assiduousness and desire fer com- pleatness, it would be in order to mention that Judge Boyle rxrejected the affidayit “because he considered it to be immaterial and mt per- 29) With the affidavit subjected to close scrutiny, Bowever, this rejection increases Judge Boyle's share in this anomaly, the ex- position of which again requires a little review. ° We must revert to Senator Kennedy's testimony, page 8, and the response footnoted 7. This, of course, was reiteration of the same declaration made in his statement at the Police Station (page 17),° as well as in his famous radio/TV “explanation”, which was, essen~ tially, “I have no idea how I got out of that car." Dr. Watis men- tioned "retrograde amnesia", it will be recalled (page 53, fsstnoted 25). Perhaps, like the "double floods" and “double ebbs” they have . in the tides at Edgartown, there is something like “double retro~- grade." This will be more clearly understood (or will it?) if we ‘refer to the specific "boy orY” Dr. Watts referred to, apparestly as it was given to hin. ‘The history of the present illness was as follows: fhe Senator) stated that he had been in an auto accident last might ou Ma.lua's Vineyard. The car went off a bridge. There is a- “lapse in his memory between hitting the bridge and coming io ‘under water and struggling to get out. There was a loss e€ ori- entation=-at the last moment, he grabbed the side of an open window and pulled himself out.- He was not clear on the events following but he remembered diving repeatedly to check frra passenger--without success. He went for help and returnsé. Again, effort to rescue passenger was without success. Mewas = driven to the ferry slip and swam to the main body of lew. He - went to his hotel where he slept fitfully until 7:00 a.m Retrograde amnesia? Well, in his talk with Dr. Watt, &. Ken- nedy evidently had amnesia for having told Police Chief Arem in that unsigned statement he collaborated with Mr. Markham on that he had "no recollection of how fhe) got out of the car“, and that - was only a matter of hours earlier. Then, on radio/TV he reiter- ated the denial offhow his escape came about, evidently havimy ex- perienced amnesia for what he tolé Dr. Watt. The amnesia wes un- gquestionably stillNin force during the inguest. This sounds gore like "oscillating" /amnesia. , But anomaly Seems to beget anomaly. Note the alleged “loss of orientation."/ In what way? The Senator fully realized tht he was upside-down ((page 7) and he remembered clearly enough tte di- rection the tida\ current swept him (he said), and even dre fia- 29/ Tbid., p. 3% Tbid., p. 90.