Word: inquest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official inquiries and public explanations concerning last July's Chappaquiddick tragedy have produced more questions than answers about Senator Edward Kennedy's role in the accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne. The findings of the last round, an inquest on Martha's Vineyard in January, have yet to be made public. Now it seems that some new disclosures-and possibly more trouble for the Senator-are imminent. District Attorney Edmund Dinis last week requested that a grand jury look into the case, a move that increased the likelihood that the entire Chappaquiddick affair may soon be aired...
Rumors about further legal action against Kennedy began to fly when Justice James Boyle filed the inquest transcript and his own report last February. Promptly impounded, the documents were brought to Boston, where Superior Court Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro ordered them locked in an office safe. The next day Kennedy's lawyer, Edward Hanify, asked to see the transcript of his client's testimony. Before this first request could be acted upon, however, Hanify filed a second petition, whose contents are unknown because he asked that it be impounded. The second petition apparently concerned Boyle...
Accusatory Proceeding. The inquest rules specified that no documents were to be released to the public if a possibility existed of further proceedings against any of those involved in the accident. Thus Hanify's concern and the delays in printing the transcript led many to surmise that Boyle had recommended a grand jury inquiry. Further action was delayed by the absence of Dinis, who was vacationing in Portugal...
...scenarist. Harold Buchman, fill the frames with repeated and lingering flashbacks to the blood-splattered walls and victim, and force-feed the characters into continually exchanging one-liners as if they were Frisbees. Occasionally, Furie shows the Silent Majority homestead in its most ludicrous light (the inquest is held outdoors in a livestock exposition arena), but mainly is preoccupied with providing plenty of lip-smackin-good leers. (Told that his client never played around. Tony quips in disbelief, "What's the matter-did he have it shot off in the last war?") When he's not reconstructing Yuk Night...
...When the inquest was over, Kennedy chose to look ahead, not backward. He returned to Washington with his wife Joan and said that he would accompany her to New York this week, where she will have her tonsils removed. He is eager to resume his senatorial duties, and plans a trip to Dublin for a speech at Trinity College. He expects to kick off his campaign for re-election to the Senate at a dinner on Feb. 22, his 38th birthday...