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Peace: Vietnam Referendum 70 Committee is sponsoring a picnic-cookout from 5 to 10 p. m. on July 1 at Dana Square, Cambridge (bounded by Pearl, Magazine, Lawrence and McTernan Streets). Music and food to build a movement for immediate withdrawal from Vietnam...
...thus necessarily centered upon whether Kennedy was negligent in not seeking help sooner to rescue Miss Kopechne, whether he had made a serious effort of his own to save her, the manner in which he drove his car that night, and how many alcoholic drinks he had at the cookout preceding the death...
...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...
Markham and Gargan spent the night at the cottage where the twelve members of the Kennedy party had held their cookout. In the morning, Markham took the ferry, went to Kennedy's room and learned that the Senator had not yet called the police. The two returned to pick up Gargan, tried to reach Attorney Burke Marshall by telephone for advice, and then went to the police station in Edgartown. By then, the car had been found and the police were looking for Kennedy...
...five women who had attended the cookout, all workers in Senator Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign, were the final witnesses at the inquest. They were presumably questioned about both the degree of drinking at the party and the time at which Kennedy and Mary Jo left the cottage. There was no indication of what they said, but all emerged looking relieved, some smiling. Kennedy testified that he had consumed only two drinks at the cookout, both rum and Coca-Colas, which would hardly be intoxicating when combined with dinner...