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...long do white Americans need to feel guilty about the evils committed by their ancestors? Is there a statute of limitations on guilt? There can be no precise answer to those questions, but it may be well to remember that it was after all whites who ended slavery ?belatedly???in a terrible war. Besides, the millions of Americans descended from post-Civil War immigrants can scarcely be charged with the sins of other people's fathers. There is some danger that breast-beating about the past may turn into a kind of escapism, distracting attention from the evils...
...also failed to account for local officials' inept handling of the case from beginning to end. Police Chief Dominick Arena never asked Kennedy why he had not reported the accident for nine hours. District Attorney Edmund Dinis seemed noticeably reluctant to enter the case at all, then pressed belatedly???and vainly?for court permission to exhume Mary Jo's body so that an autopsy could be performed. His questions throughout the inquest were somewhat less than probing. Justice Boyle's handling of the inquest findings was inconclusive. He was empowered to bring charges, such as negligent driving or perjury, against...
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