This is the story of a murder trial on Martha's Vineyard. It is told by a graduate, my vintage, of the Law School in retirement on the Vineyard in grief over the death of his wife. To deflect his misery, he undertakes to search for the motive of the murder of his neighbor, the Chief Justice of the United States, shot to death on East Beach on the adjacent island known as "Chappy." The narrator's foray takes him back to December, 1941 and the murder, two days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, of a whistleblower who, believing the Germans are unable to build the weapon, objects to to the Administration's decision to build the atomic bomb and is about to make it a public issue. Before he ascends his pulpit he is assassinated by a team led by the Chief Justice, then an intelligence agent under cover as a White House Aide. A verdict is returned. The question for the reader. Did it speak the truth?