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...Mary Jo Kopechne proved unexpectedly low-key and uneventful. Intruding upon the wintertime serenity of Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard, the inquest gave Senator Edward Kennedy new hope that he may yet recover from the public disgrace of the night his car hurtled off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island...
...Doors. The major leaks from the courtroom concerned the testimony of Paul Markham and Joseph Gargan, both lawyers and friends of Kennedy who had attended the Chappaquiddick cookout with him. They confirmed to Judge Boyle that they had helped Teddy try to rescue Miss Kopechne shortly after the car submerged. Gargan told of diving into the water and trying to open the car doors. The car's two left doors, scratched and wrapped in burlap, were brought to the courthouse, presumably because they might bear evidence of the attempts to open them or indicate why such efforts had failed...
...most publicized automobile accident in history; yet those are virtually the only facts about it that are beyond dispute. Except, perhaps, that Chappaquiddick has shadowed Kennedy's political career and capsized his presidential hopes-at least for 1972. This week in the red-brick Dukes County courthouse in Edgartown, Mass., Justice James A. Boyle will sit to hear "the case of Mary Jo Kopechne, No. 15220," in a closed inquest aimed at sorting out some of the bewilderment of the night of July...
...grand jury. Although Massachusetts has no criminal-negligence law, Boyle is charged with finding out "when, where and by what means the person deceased came to her death," and whether an "unlawful act or negligence" contributed to that death. Among other things, Boyle will question guests at the Chappaquiddick cookout about whether drunken driving was involved. If Boyle decides that there might have been an unlawful act, the record of the inquest can remain secret unless a grand jury hears the case...
...Olsen Theory. One writer has raised an intriguing doubt that Kennedy was even in the car when it sank in Poucha Pond. Jack Olsen, who is a senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, argues in The Bridge at Chappaquiddick that the Senator stopped the car on the dirt road leading to the bridge and got out. His motive, says Olsen, was to avoid being recognized-alone with a young woman late at night-by Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look, who had spotted the car a moment earlier at the intersection of the dirt road and the paved road leading to the Edgartown...