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ONLY Edward Moore Kennedy knows exactly what happened from the time he left the cookout on Chappaquiddick last month until his black Oldsmobile sedan capsized off the Dike Bridge, taking Mary Jo Kopechne to her death at the bottom of Poucha Pond. From that moment until some time before he reported the accident at 9:30 a.m., according to Kennedy's televised accounting a week later, he was "overcome by a jumble of emotions." "My conduct and conversations during the next several hours make no sense at all to me," he said...
What will the inquest, due to begin this week at Edgartown, do to make sense of that bizarre and tragic night? The answer will obviously depend upon the candor and character of those who attended the cookout, including Kennedy, and upon the acuity of the questions raised by District Attorney Edmund Dinis. It will also rest significantly upon how far the presiding judge, James A. Boyle, permits Dinis to range in exploring not only the immediate circumstances of the accident but also the actions and omissions of Kennedy and his friends afterward. Last week Boyle indicated that he would allow...
...five girls who attended the cookout are uniformly bright, efficient, fascinated by politics and cultishly pro-Kennedy. None is strikingly attractive, and as a group they are hardly the sort that older men would invite for a weekend of dalliance. From the beginning, they have intended to go to the inquest. Explains one: "My God, can you imagine what the reaction would be if we refused to attend? The great coverup, right? We'll all be there, if for no other reason than to defend the reputation of Mary Jo." All of the girls were scheduled to spend...
Susie, 24, is bright, sensitive, and perhaps the most attractive of the girls who attended the cookout. The daughter of a Greensboro, N.C., dentist, she attended Centenary College in Hackettstown, N.J., and later Miami University of Ohio. She went to Washington to work for Robert Kennedy in 1967. Her co-workers in the Kennedy mail room remember her as lively and exceptionally competent. She now works for New York's Representative Allard Lowenstein, one of the architects of the 1968 "Dump Johnson" movement...
...Kennedy himself, although there is some legal argument that calling the Senator to testify would violate his constitutional rights in the event that the inquest were to lead to later criminal proceedings against him. The other witnesses will include the five girls and five other men who attended the cookout on Chappaquiddick. Arena will appear, as will Dr. Donald R. Wills, the Dukes County associate medical examiner, who pronounced Mary Jo's death an accidental drowning some eight or ten hours after Kennedy's sedan tum bled off the Dike Bridge...