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unwary listerer or C@ex to accept his claim Cy pitch blackness" under water at that moment. Note his reference to it four times in the course of this portion of his narrative. The truth is that the headlights of the car remained on for a few minutes after the. plunge and created quite a bit of underwater illumination, al- though necessarily diffused. Mr. Kennedy reveals this himself a (and the Engineering Department of the Oldsmobile Division of € General ‘Motors Gonfirms it) further on when he relates his al- leged return to the car after having been swept some 30 or 40 & feet downstream (see page 9 and Perjury No 6). This was how he distinguished the front of the car from the rear, he said! Fur- ther on (p. 13), he relates how the headlights of the Valiant il- luminated everything sufficiently for him to “see exactly what was happening" (the diving by Mr. Gargan and Mr. Markham) and make suggestions. I dc believe there would have been enough light to have permitted such visibility, as, from having swum in the waters at Martha's Vineyard, I know it is remarkably clear. PERJURY No. 5 (p. 8) In his earliér testimony (pp. 7-8), he insisted that he n.. been upside down after the car ran off the bridge. If it did not turn over, how was this explained? ; In the statement given to Chief Arena (see p. 17), it was stated, "The car turned over and sank into the water and landed with the roof resting on the bottom.” Although unsigned, the Sen- ator attested to its accuracy in his testimony. PERJURY No. 6 (p. 9) ~~ . . The tide changed (low) at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Satur- day, July 19th, according to Mr. Farrar's testimony (The Inguest, p. 80), and which can be confirmed by those at the scene at tne time. The. tide oscillation is approximately every six hours. Therefore, it was low tide at approximately 11:30 p.m., when Mr. Kennedy alleges the accident occurred. Accordingly, there was no current at ali. Even if the car did not run off the bridge until a few minutes after it was (alleged to have been) sighted by Mr. . Look at 12:45 a.m., the current could not have been running as fast as described. The time of the accident has been firmly estab- lished as far as testimony is concerned, however, as approximately 11:30 p.m., since*every surviving member of the party who admits having been at the cottage when the Senator left has.given from nt 11:15 to 11:30 as the time of his departure, and his sworn account is that he proceeded directly to the bridge from having made a “wrong turn." This could not have taken more than a few minutes. Then he spent fifteen minutes diving for Mary Jo (he said), an-: other fifteen minutes recuperating (he said) and still another fifteen minutes returning by foot from the bridge to the cottage for assistance (he said), arriving there at approximately 12:15, which has also been corroborated by others in the party. * almost oe oe ee ee eee eg pips ng emi mente