Word: inquest
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However, the new image Black journalists gained among world reporters and their own leaders only increased the difficulties under which they and their white English-speaking counterparts labor. Today a Defense Act prevents reporters from writing anything pertaining to the military without permission from the Commissioner of Defense. An inquest act forbids stories containing anything except the verdict of an inquest, and a Prison Act regulates reports on prisons, prisoners and prison life...
...direction and strength of the tide during the swim are central to one of the most important questions about Chappaquiddick: Why did Kennedy wait until almost ten hours after the accident before reporting it to the police? At a January 1970 inquest, he gave a vivid account of how he had plunged into the water and then "felt an extraordinary shove ... the tide began to draw me out, and for the second time that evening I knew I was going to drown ... I remembered being swept down toward the direction of the Edgartown Light and well out into the darkness...
...hired by Kennedy's staff to study the currents, concluded that the opening was "more than twelve feet deep." The depth of the opening is important because only a large volume of water pouring through it could produce the northward current that Kennedy described at the inquest...
Kennedy is unlikely to set to rest doubts about his story. Both the Digest and Star pointed out that his account of nearly drowning during the swim conflicted with the testimony of Gargan and Markham at the January 1970 inquest. They said that they had watched the start of the Senator's swim, observed no struggle, concluded that he could reach Edgartown with no trouble and returned to the cottage. Kennedy told reporters last week that he might not have shown any signs of difficulty that were visible to Gargan and Markham, but that he nonetheless had battled against...
...Digest, in addition, produced a second allegation: when Kennedy's rented 1967 Oldsmobile approached the bridge, he had been driving at 30 to 38 m.p.h., rather than 20 m.p.h., as he testified at the inquest. It based this conclusion on computer studies conducted by an auto-safety expert. Had "a reasonably attentive driver" actually approached the bridge at 20 m.p.h. or so, the Digest asserted, he would have seen the bridge in time to brake safely to a stop. The point seems secondary; whatever Kennedy's speed that fateful night, it obviously was too fast for the washboard...