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There were six women and six men, including the Senator. Besides Mary Jo, the women, all from Washington, were Susan Tannenbaum, Rosemary Keough, Esther Newberg, and two sisters, Nancy and Mary Ellen Lyons. Besides Kennedy and Gargan, the men were Paul Markham, a former U.S. attorney for Massachusetts; Jack Crimmins, a Kennedy employee; Charles Tredder and Raymond Larusso, frequent sailing companions. Kennedy was registered at the Shiretown Inn in Edgartown, across the channel from Chappaquiddick; the women were put up at The Dunes, a motel several miles away. Kennedy had raced his yacht, the Victura, that afternoon in the first...
...back seat of a car and asked someone at the party to take him back to Edgartown. How he finally managed to get to Edgartown he did not relate. In the second explanation, he said that when he reached the cottage, he talked to Gargan and Paul Markham, a former U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, and took them back to the bridge. Both of his friends then dived into the water, Kennedy said on TV, but failed to find Mary Jo. "All kinds of scrambled thoughts" went through his mind, said Kennedy, including the notion that perhaps the event...
Were the Authorities Lax? Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena, a well-meaning former state trooper who had escaped to the island to avoid the tensions of the mainland, was on a diet of tranquilizers last week. In his own words, he had never investigated anything more serious than complaints of "snapping turtles or snakes in people's yards." Though Kennedy spent some time in Arena's office the morning after the accident preparing his initial statement, Arena never thought to question him. Nor were the other participants in the party interrogated. "After all," Arena told reporters, "when you have...
...last of the Kennedy brothers. Once he reportedly said: "I know that I'm going to get my ass shot off one day, and I don't want to." He talked privately of how his father had watched the Eisenhower funeral on television and of how the former ambassador had thought that his youngest son was being buried. Ted, who had always been the blithest brother, and the least intellectual or introspective, could now be morose at times...
After 45 years at Harvard, Paul H. Buck, professor of History and former provost of the University, is retiring this Fall. He will become University Professor, emeritus...