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Pt et te wn aah BE Rant ARQ A Se Ace eat ett Arm tn Di nelin t mmretteetnn! ah : J pr ee ee re nee ee ee ¢ / “ “I inter. .thel Weoneay ane FKepechne did i Wintend to re-- turn to Edgartown at that time; that Kennedy ami not intend to drive to the ferry slip and his turn onto Dike Road was intentional." , * I! believe it probable that Kennedy knew of the hazard that ‘aheaa of him on Dike Koad but that, for sage reason not arent from the testimony, he failed to exermmise due care he approached the bridge." a I agree with the Judge. There were too many inconsistencies and contradictions to indicate each one, but I thisk it is quite feasible to indicate and expose a significant number of them, the C most egregious and particularly those that can be shown to be ei- . ther self-contradictory and/or contradictory to fact and which \ are, therefore, perjurious. Such exposure may enable the reader (including Judge Boyle) to take any of several possible courses: (1) to remove the doubt as to whether Senator Kennedy knew of the hazard that existed; (2) to remove at least some of the obscurity. regarding the reason(s) why he did not exercise due care in ap- proaching the bridge; (3) to decide whether, in fact, the Senator drove off the bridge deliberately, or (4) the reader may go bac. to sleep. In essence, then, this book is intended to assist Judge Boyle. One of the results of the exposure, however, may be the exposure of some inconsistencies and contradictions (implied, at least) on the part of the Judge (but the Judge is an honorable man--so are they all, all, honorable men (and women)). At the end of the book .at least one possible course will be suggested in ease the reader C asks, “What can be done about it?" - The world knows that this inquest concerned analleged auto- mobile accident in which, just before midnight, July 18, 1969, Senator Edward M. Kennedy drove off a narrew bridge on Chappaquid- dick Island just off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts into _-a tidai pond and that.a passenger, Miss Mary Jo Kopechne, subse- - :quently lost her life by drowning as a direct resrit. _ «Much of the world knows that the inquest was held in secret. _; It was so secret, in fact, that, as indicated in the Judge's open- , ing remarks, transcripts of testimony were denied the District At- torney. Not so much of the world knows that the inquest was post- poned four months, and only a little of the world knows, I suspect, that the inguest has now been made public and is available to all. Copies may be obtained ($1.00) by writing to the publisher: Mag- num-Royal Publications, Inc., 1560 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036. This:is the principal source--The Inguest--of the information about to be given. It is in magazine form, and references tc spe- cific statements in various testimonies will be maie to page num- bers therein, as on the preceding page. ’ Two other bocks, to my knowledge, have previously appeared on this broad subject. The first was The Bridge at Ckappacuiddick (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, in hardcover), oy Jark Olsen, a senior editor of Time, who did a remarkable job of researching and then recounting it most entertainingly. No reference wes made to the =o 2