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...girl named Mary Jo Kopechne decided to return to her motel in Edgartown shortly after 11 p.m. Kennedy volunteered to drive her to the ferry, before it closed for the night. They never made it. Kennedy missed a turn and drove his black Oldsmobile 88 over the side of Dyke Bridge, the automobile plunging into Poucha Pond. Kopechne was found the next morning in the upside-down car, her face pressed into the footwell in a futile attempt to survive by breathing the remaining air trapped there...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: ...In the Driver's Seat | 1/13/1976 | See Source »

...blood, (equivalent to 3 1/2 to 5 ounces of eighty to ninety proof liquor), although her friends testified she had not been drinking heavily at the party. Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look observed a dark sedan with Massachusetts license plates that began with "L7" and ended with "7," turn down Dyke Road in the direction of the bridge at 12:45 a.m. Kennedy's sedan's plate number was L78-207, but Kennedy's testified the accident occurred at about 11:25. There were other inconsistencies, and much of the testimony at the hearing conflicted...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: ...In the Driver's Seat | 1/13/1976 | See Source »

Judge Boyle, on the basis of the evidence presented, concluded that Kennedy was not driving to the ferry and that his turn onto Dyke Road was intentional. Boyle found him guilty of negligence, contributing to Kopechne's death. The sentence was suspended...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: ...In the Driver's Seat | 1/13/1976 | See Source »

...Inspector hypothesizes that Kennedy and the girl left the party at approximately 11:30 and deliberately drove to the beach on the other side of Dyke Bridge. There, in privacy, they shared a bottle of liquor (accounting for Mary Jo's high alcohol intake) and perhaps more. The two returned to the cottage after an hour, and as a joke hid from Kennedy's cousin Joe Gargan and Paul Markham. Gargan and Markham set off in another car to find the Senator and Mary Jo. Tiring of the joke, Kennedy followed in the Oldsmobile at 12:40. On the Main...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: ...In the Driver's Seat | 1/13/1976 | See Source »

...crown prince Hassan of Jordan is a rather short Arab with a van dyke beard and a very short step, but last Friday night on the second floor of the Harvard Faculty Club he charmed two dozen guests of the Center for International Affairs...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Hassan Comes To Harvard | 12/13/1975 | See Source »

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