Word: chappaquiddick
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...most of the interest in Kennedy is pathological, even among the town's sorely outnumbered Democrats. They speak of the man in the past tense, or if they speak to the future, it's about his chances of assassination. The consensus is that Chappaquiddick did him in: "People remembered more than he thought they would," one man says, and he is right. Jogging memories across the state, New Hampshire's biggest paper, The Manchester Union-Leader, last week ran the Washington Star series on Kennedy's dealings with long-legged rather mysterious Lana, a "European countess...
...direction and strength of the tide during the swim are central to one of the most important questions about Chappaquiddick: Why did Kennedy wait until almost ten hours after the accident before reporting it to the police? At a January 1970 inquest, he gave a vivid account of how he had plunged into the water and then "felt an extraordinary shove ... the tide began to draw me out, and for the second time that evening I knew I was going to drown ... I remembered being swept down toward the direction of the Edgartown Light and well out into the darkness...
...Washington Star relied on entirely different evidence. It produced aerial photos, dated May and November 1969, of the sandbar opening through which ocean tides swept northward into Katama Bay, through the channel between Edgartown and Chappaquiddick and out into the sound. According to the pictures, the opening into Katama Bay was still clear in May but had been blocked by sand by November. The Star indicated that the opening had gradually silted up during the intervening months. The newspaper concluded that by July 18 the gap would have been too narrow and shallow to let in a northward current...
...reporters, and more attempted exposés may be on the way. Nicholas Horrock and a team of fellow New York Timesmen are reported to be poking anew into the tragedy. Ladislas Farago, a writer on military and espionage subjects, is said to be preparing a long book about Chappaquiddick...
...Democrats queried had a favorable opinion of Kennedy vs. only 19% unfavorable. A new poll published last week disclosed that the favorable figure had shrunk to 51%, while the unfavorable number had doubled to 38% -and those questioned who disliked the Senator repeatedly cited doubts about Chappaquiddick...