Word: chappaquiddick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...People. On the same day that Nixon appeared at the U.N., he was lashed by a familiar adversary. After brooding for nearly two months about the effect of his fatal Chappaquiddick Island accident on his credibility in raising a moral issue, Senator Edward Kennedy converted a routine dinner speech in Boston into a chance to resume-with even more sting than before-his attack on the Administration's war policy. "We have made only token troop withdrawals on the battlefield, an exercise in politics and improvisation," he charged. He called Viet Nam "difficult to justify, impossible...
Thus, for the first time since his black Oldsmobile tumbled off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick seven weeks ago, Kennedy gained a measure of legal control over the case that, in the midst of his own silences and the elaborate speculations of practically everyone else, had been careering toward what he feared would be, in effect, an officially sanctioned trial by rumor...
...that the inquest, under Judge Boyle's terms, could take on some aspects of a kangaroo court. Boyle opened the inquest to 103 reporters and denied that the hearing represented an accusatory proceeding. Hence, ruled Boyle, lawyers for the witnesses-including Kennedy and the others who attended the Chappaquiddick cookout-had no right to cross-examine or challenge testimony on the grounds of irrelevancy...
...crusading spirit is upon it. As recently as seven weeks ago, Pearson was caught with his facts in the wastebasket when he charged that President Nixon had tried to dictate a starring role for himself in the Apollo moon-flight ceremonies. Anderson's reconstruction of the tragedy at Chappaquiddick also struck many as more supposition than substance. The columnist wrote that Kennedy at first persuaded his cousin Joseph Gargan to take the blame for Mary Jo Kopechne's death, then changed his mind during the night. Anderson insists that he pried the information, thread by thread, from Kennedy...
Dinis plans to call about 20 witnesses, including the five "boiler room" girls who were present at the cookout in a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick (see THE NATION). The attorney for the girls wants Judge Boyle to narrow the scope of the inquiry. Without any restrictions on the questioning, he contends, the girls could be quizzed on their entire lives...