he always seemed to me to be representative of the kind of people who lived in edgartown but accordingnnedy around 11:15 plenty of time to make the midnight ferry back he says he was tired and mary jo was tired so they decided to go home. >> the sheriff christopher hawk would claim he saw kennedy's car driving on dyke road around 12:45 a.m. an hour and a half effie claimed he left the party with mary jo. >> this is a key part of the discrepancy. we talked about trying to save mary jo and then joey and paul going to defend and bring them back and say them in the time when he goes over and jumps in and swims back to the mainland you put all that together that's two and half hours. if you leave the party around 1115, 11:30 that timeline can work but if as a local deputy sheriff says he saw the car out closer to 12:40 in the morning the timeline just does not work. there's a way he could've done all the things he said he did and still get to where he was seen by the hotel manager later that night. it's not physically possible. that's why the significance of who was in the car and when was

was a chilly morning on january 5, 1970 when ted kennedy returned to edgartown massachusetts.s, each with their own version of the event that took place the previous july, but as a result of some on orthodox legal maneuvering, senator kennedy was the first witness called. >> they let the lead safeco first. the press can't broadcast what they see but every single witness who's going to follow him afterward to see what he said. >> hungry press corps gathered outside he answered 86 questions about the like that mary jo died. over the next four days there were shuffled in and out including the chief of police, the diver. >> i testified as to what i did. [inaudible] on day three reporters swarmed as the boiler room girls made their way through the crowd and into the old courthouse to tell their stories. the proceedings were closed but some detailed managed to leak outside to the press camped outside. >> the real issue was to make sure you got something you could take. >> the kennedy camp took a sigh of relief as it ended quietly. if the public and the press bill had no answers. >>

. >> the usual was away at the time and doctor mills from edgartown was the standby examiner. >> after was performed by doctor mills in his professional capacity there was no need for an autopsy, clearly a case of drowning and he leaves. >> there was another that came and took her body away. >> the hearse made its way back to the mainland and ted kennedy had run out of options. >> it was now at least 930 in the morning and they decided they couldn't spend any more time asking for advice. they came back to the ferry. >> harvey ewing appeared. >> my dad came walking up just as the vote was coming in. he snapped a shot of kennedy walking off the ferry. >> it would be the only photograph taken that day of the senator. the image seemed incompatible. the chief had learned his part was in return to the cottage where he had gotten a bathing suit and asked to use their phone. >> i'm sorry senator, i have some bad news. there's been another tragedy. your car was involved in an accident and a girl is dead. >> they were shocked by the reply. >> kennedy state cool as a cucumber and said i prefer yo