Word: inquest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dike Bridge the next morning, Look declared: "Gee, that is the same car I saw last night." Its registration number was L78-207. At the inquest, Kennedy insisted that he had been on the road more than an hour earlier and had encountered no other car. But LaRosa and the Lyons sisters confirmed that while out for a late-night stroll, they had been offered a ride...
...inquest nearly six months later, the cookout crowd's memories were contradictory. But on two particulars, their memories were sharp and uniform: Kennedy drank only one or two rum-and-Cokes, and he left with Mary Jo between 11 and 11:45. In late July and again in early August 1969, Esther Newberg told TIME that she had not been aware at the time that the couple had even left the party. At the inquest, however, she said that Kennedy and Mary Jo had left at 11:30. How did she know? "I have a rather large watch that...
Whatever his motive, Dinis did not encourage the grand jury to get involved after the inquest. At the insistence of Foreman Leslie H. Leland, a pharmacist, the grand jury was reconvened in April 1970. But it was muzzled by Dinis' reluctance to press the investigation and by a court order prohibiting the jurors from summoning witnesses who had already testified at the inquest and from examining the inquest transcript. The grand jury quit in frustration, and Dinis declared: "The case is closed...
Thus at every stage of Watergate and the "Grand Inquest" that followed, we have a vindication of the Constitution and of the political habits that have grown up under it. And this has brought with it a large measure of popular education in constitutionalism, in the meaning of separation of powers, in the central importance of the Bill of Rights and in the validity and resourcefulness of the democratic process. The purpose of impeachment is not only to remove from office a man who has betrayed the public trust. It is also to explore the nature of that public trust...
...pleaded with students at the Sanders Theater meeting no to disrupt the speeches by representatives of the South Vietnamese and other governments. Cox later headed the inquest which led to CRR trials for a number of students who took part in the chanting and clapping that disrupted the teach...