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wee aw. enth calls are in reverse order. Neither of taese is hardly worth mentioning, they are so minor, but Kennedy-~camers are certain to pounce on the overlapping of times between the properly placed sev- enth call (5:54 to 6:21) and the eighth call, ahich began at 6:04 -sms. and ended at 6:11. The obvious question generated by this informa- tion isfhow Mr. Kennedy, or anyone else, could dave made that eighth $all when he was still. Carrying on the sewenth and did not hang up§until ten minutes after the eighth call was supposed to have tefminated? That looks like a real stickler and no claim is made here for the absolute answer, but two reasamable conjectures can be offered. The first is that the eighth ell was made by an-. other party than the one engaged in the seventh. Who this might : ~ have been is an open question. Is it possible that one of the other five men went back to Edgartown with the Senator, theirs and other testimony notwithstanding? (Perjury was commonplace during that inguest.) It is doubtful. The one remainiag, visible candi- .date is Joseph Kennedy III, the Senator's “teeraged nephew. Young = Joe certainly was in Edgartown that night, Jack @lisen@l]/ tells us, which appears to be Supported by the District Attorney's interest, when questioning Mr. Kennedy, in whether Joe UY had also stayed at the Shiretown Inn. “Not to my knowledge", was the reply. 22. . The alternate possibility seems at the moment to be the more plausible. That is, that the 5:54 call to Mr. smith did not last _27 minutes, but only seven. And it would also seem that the error in the length of the call occurred before it reeched the Graphic. . Pursuing this avenue, let us note that the eighth call was to Mr. Sorenson (who later defended the trip to Champaquiddick to make a telephone call) and it is doubtful that anyone bat the Senator ‘Would have conversed with that gentleman fcr sesen minutes. Could ; it have been advantageous to have both parties wm the line simul- taneously? Perhaps, but this would have required two separate and virtually adjacent telephone instruments, unlessa "conference" _ all was arranged, which is most unlikely. An imformational squib abridged from the detailing of the sixth call, above, seems to fit . well-enough with the deductive speculation that the error was. in * the length of the call. It was: “Throughout tt past decade, Mr. ‘Smith publicly has been referred to as an ‘errasi boy' for the Ken-~ nedy brothers." How does one justify conversing at six 6'clock on a Saturday morning (even this one) for 27 minutes with his errand boy?’ And it was hardly a family chat. Whatever the explanation for these detailzy anomalies, er-- rors of greater magnitude arid consequence have been committed in publications of greater magnitude. And if the Presidential Hopeful ("Happiness is Kennedy in '72"--or at least in °i6) was so nervous at the Police Station as to require assistance is dialing, may we not assume some understandable trepidation on the part of those in- volved in making this information public and bees so affected by it? Let it be remembered: that the date of this issue ef the Graphic was almost exactly three months prior to the beginnisy of the inguest, and let us note the things that do line up properly, such as the ad~. mitted desire and attempt to call Burke Marshall and the actual eee epee Rechentathd |] 3 -_ (a whe?