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There are few incontrovertible facts about the incident. Around midnight of that fatal Friday, a black 1967 Oldsmobile sedan hurtled off narrow, humpbacked Dike Bridge, landing upside down in about eight feet of water in Poucha Pond, an inlet on the island's eastern end. Next morning, fishermen discovered the car and alerted the police...
Instead of turning west on the paved road to the ferry slip, Kennedy went east along the dirt road to Dike Bridge. Kennedy insisted that he thought he was headed for the ferry. At a speed of about 20 m.p.h., he came upon Dike Bridge, and the car crashed into the pond...
...account was contradicted by the testimony of Deputy Sheriff Christopher F. ("Huck") Look Jr., who lived on Chappaquiddick. Driving home that night, Look saw a car cross in front of. him at about 12:45 a.m., stop in a lane called Cemetery Road, back up and go down Dike Road. Look noted that the car carried Massachusetts license L7-7; he forgot the middle numbers. Farther along the road, he came upon a man and two women who declined his offer of a ride...
Such a confederation would involve a tenuous balance between the fears of the white settlers and the aspirations of the African people, Rogers and Dike explained. Both men agreed that Spinola will attempt to isolate the militant independence fighters in each colony by directing his appeal for reconciliation to moderate blacks...
Rogers said Spinola seems confident that a majority of the blacks in each of the colonies will not want to sever all ties to Portugal. Dike, noting that the revolutionary armies in each colony have already publicly rejected anything less than full independence, said that the wars, which have been waged for over a decade, may continue...