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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...
...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...
Since his car drove off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick, carrying Mary Jo Kopechne to her death, the scars of stress and self-doubt have etched themselves into Teddy Kennedy's face and affected his voice and actions. None of his friends expected him to regain his equilibrium soon. Now, among both friends and political intimates, who initially felt that his withdrawal from presidential contention and his expressed intention to remain in the Senate would suspend the harassments plaguing him, there is a growing fear that he is being driven from public life...
...least six songs entitled The Ballad of Mary Jo were submitted to New York publishers. Someone visiting the remote Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick carved TED & MARY in the bridge's wooden planks. Reporters and columnists kept up a flow of speculation that prompted the New York Times's James Reston, who agrees that Edward Kennedy's account of the fatal accident at Poucha Pond has not been satisfactory, to object that "he is being tried in the press before he gets to court...
...story. Some lawyers think that the hearing can legally consider only the immediately pertinent questions of whether and how much Kennedy had been drinking, what time he left the party with Mary Jo and how fast he was driving at the time his black Oldsmobile leaped off the Dike Bridge. After all, an inquest is structured to be a kind of legal fishing expedition to determine whether or not a crime may have been committed...