Word: chappaquiddick
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...identity of Kennedy's Republican opponent. G.O.P. voters chose Josiah Spaulding, the former Republican state chairman, over John McCarthy, onetime state commissioner of administration and finance. McCarthy had promised a no-holds-barred race that would not shy away from attacking Kennedy's conduct after the Chappaquiddick accident last summer. Spaulding says that he will campaign on Kennedy's Senate record, asserting that Kennedy has not kept his 1962 campaign promise to "do more for Massachusetts." Whatever the Republican approach, Kennedy still seems unbeatable in his home state...
AFTER the murders, the accidents and Chappaquiddick, it was only a minor footnote. But for the Kennedys, bad news never ends. Into the old courthouse in Barnstable, Mass., last week marched the vanguard of the next Kennedy generation: Robert Jr. and his cousin, Robert Sargent Shriver III, both 16. The charge: juvenile delinquency by virtue of possessing marijuana...
...transcript told a great deal about Kennedy's state of mind at the time of the accident. In a televised act of contrition a week after Chappaquiddick, the Senator was uncertain as to the length of time he spent trying to rescue Mary Jo and vague as to how long it took him to make his way back to the cottage where his friends were partying. By the time of the inquest, his memory had improved considerably. His testimony vividly described his and Mary Jo's struggles to get out of the overturned car and his own seemingly miraculous escape...
...Gargan and Markham told almost identical stories of their return to the bridge with Kennedy, and their attempts to bring up Mary Jo. Gargan and Markham insisted that they advised Kennedy repeatedly to report the accident and summon help. By the time the trio reached the Chappaquiddick ferry landing, Kennedy seemed to agree. Believing somehow that a full explanation would send Mary Jo's girl friends down to the bridge in a fruitless?and dangerous ?attempt to dive for her themselves, Kennedy instructed Markham and Gargan not to alarm them, said that he would take care of reporting...
There is little Kennedy can do to ameliorate his situation, and he realizes this only too well. Asked last week if he would have anything further to say about Chappaquiddick, Kennedy answered firmly: "No, never." But he did speak out on other matters. Continuing his re-emergence into public life, he appeared on his first broadcast interview program in two years, using the occasion to reiterate his claim that he will not be a presidential candidate in 1972. He addressed a group of Boston advertising people and branded as "madness" President Nixon's decision to carry the Viet...