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ee et NE meh ates ai A matt ae 8 ya Se ok ste Senator Stennis (@ Page 2 ser ont comsanern CONFIDENTIAL Also from the standpoint of time, I felt obliged to read two books on the subject that came to my attention late ¥ast fall and winter.g They are mentioned in my book. Additionally, this has necessarily been a spare-time project. o much for accounting for interim time and transpirations. As you will see, the enclosed manuscript is the first section of my book, All Honorable Men (and Women). Although exrerpts from the testimonies of a number of others are included, it deals prin- .cipally with the Senator's testimony. It constitutes about twenty- five percent of the total, which is about three-quarters or a little more finished as of this writing. I believe this is the portion your Committee would be most concerned with, and/or concerned with first. Certainly, it more than satisfies Mr. Fern's request for . "underlying evidence" of my allegations of perjury. Where seven outright perjuries are cited and detailed in the manescript, three additional ones were perceived as my work progressed in sections Gealing primarily with the testimonies of others closely associated -with him and these additional perjuries are cited therein. = ee I reinforce the recommendation made early in the book that Mr. Kennedy's testimony be read straight through in srder to gain the best overall view and comprehension of the evcnt as a whole . then go back and look up the perjuries and quasi-perjuries as they are roforcnced. netailins of the perjuries begins om page 20, the quasi-perjuries (anomalies) on page 25. "Skim" reading would be a serious mistake. _You and/or your colleagues may find yourselves wondering about the authenticity of my source. I received my eopy of The Inquest from the Clerk of Courts in Edgartown, having been re- ferred to her (Mrs. Campos) by Judge Boyle in his handwritten re- ply to my inguiry to him about obtaining testimonial transcript. Photocopies of that correspondence are ‘also encloseé, At the time I had the title page photocopied, I had antici- pated copyrighting each section as it was finished. Then I learned -- that a restricted and limited circulation nf a manuscript prior to publication does not jeopardize copyrightability, thet copyrighting a work of this sort implies that-it has been made public. I did not proceed with the copyright application and none of the manu-; script has (yet) been made public. 9 te ew cemntsin”. > « Now there are several other things you should know, Mr. Stennis, the importance of which can hardly be overemphasized. At