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...would pack their station wagons on Labor Day and head for the ferry at Vine yard Haven for their ride back to the mainland. But the Vineyard summer crowd will no sooner be gone than scores of reporters and camera crews will pour into Edgartown for the Sept. 3 inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Poucha Pond...
District Attorney Edmund Dinis estimates that the inquest in the small Dukes County courthouse will last as long as a week. He will call about 20 wit nesses. One of them is almost certain to be Edward Kennedy himself, although there is some legal argument that calling the Senator to testify would violate his constitutional rights in the event that the inquest were to lead to later criminal proceedings against him. The other witnesses will include the five girls and five other men who attended the cookout on Chappaquiddick. Arena will appear, as will Dr. Donald R. Wills, the Dukes...
Dinis had hoped for an autopsy on Mary Jo's body before the inquest, but last week the opposition of the girl's parents succeeded at least temporarily in preventing it. The Kopechnes' lawyers won a hearing in Luzerne County, Pa., where Mary Jo is buried, on whether exhumation and autopsy would now be necessary or legal...
...inquest may serve to answer the unanswered questions in what is be coming a peculiar and in some ways tragic episode in American political history. Or it may be that those who might have the answers will stick by the explanations already given, however implausible they seem. For the moment, all of the guests at the Chappaquiddick party continue to preserve what seems to be a preternatural silence...
Even though the Kopechnes are depending upon the inquest to explain the circumstances of Mary Jo's death more precisely, they last week hired a lawyer to fight legal moves by Massachusetts District Attorney Edmund Dinis to have their daughter's body exhumed and an autopsy performed. "What could an autopsy prove now?" Mrs. Kopechne asked. "It's all turned into a political issue...