Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: I was astounded at the results of your Harris poll on the Kennedy affair [Aug. 8]. If 68% of the people of this country condone Kennedy's actions in connection with the recent accident, then we are in real trouble-because our moral standards have completely decayed. If...
Sir: He was quick to criticize, from the safety of the Senate, the tactics of our generals at Hamburger Hill. At that time, he knew everything about saving lives. Unfortunately, he wasn't that quick-witted on the night of the accident. If he had any real greatness about...
An inquest might determine at what time Kennedy and Mary Jo left the Chappaquiddick party and how much they had had to drink. But it is problematic whether such a hearing could legally consider some of the larger lacunae in Kennedy's account. Why did Gargan and Markham not...
Speculation, meanwhile, has not died down. An inquest of suspicions has been in session since the accident. In a grotesque way, the situation is reminiscent of the aftermath of Dallas: around certain known but maddeningly opaque facts, imaginations elaborated conjectures possibly far worse than the truth. In an attempt at...
Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson became the first to publish a widely circulated notion that Kennedy, immediately after the accident, had Joe Gargan, his cousin, agree to "admit to driving the car." The columnists said that Ted Kennedy, Markham and Gargan returned to the Dike Bridge "to make certain...