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...Senator said that he dived several times in an attempt to rescue her but the current was too strong. Giving up, he walked more than a mile back to the cottage and told two old friends, Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham, about the accident. All three drove back to the bridge in another car. Gargan and Markham dived unsuccessfully after Kopechne and then drove Kennedy to the harbor...
...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 Road, however, Kennedy ran into trouble. He slowed when he saw a car approaching. It turned...
...Deal Democrat and has been closely associated with the Kennedy family. He worked in the Milwaukee headquarters of John F. Kennedy in the 1960 Wisconsin primary; a year later Kennedy appointed him U.S. Attorney. One of his assistants in that post was Kennedy's cousin, Joseph F. Gargan. In 1966, Ted Kennedy sponsored Garrity's nomination for the federal bench...
...erred in telling the court that he had never been on Chappaquiddick before the day of the accident, and that he had fixed the time of his return to the cottage after the accident by the dashboard clock of a Valiant driven by his cousin and sometime factotum, Joseph Gargan...
...Another unnamed informant claimed that Gargan indeed agreed to take responsibility for the accident, but that Kennedy decided the next morning that "the alibi either couldn't work or he couldn't live with it." The Senator also denies this report...