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...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...
Kopechne's death and Kennedy's actions that night have been the subject of a police inquiry, court inquest, at least five books and countless investigations by magazine, newspaper and TV reporters. Almost everything in Kennedy's description of the night's events has been challenged; even the judge who presided at the inquest was skeptical. But Kennedy has steadfastly stuck by his account, which he first related on TV a week after the accident, and after he had consulted with at least seven old Kennedy hands. He has denied that he was drunk, that...
Police will not discuss the Ripper's trademark murder technique, because they fear that lurid revelations might inspire other killers to imitate his grisly methods. Some details, however, came out at an inquest on Jean Jordan, the Ripper's seventh victim. At that proceeding, a pathologist reported that the victim had been slashed and mutilated in a style reminiscent of the original Jack the Ripper. In 1888 a rapacious killer whose identity has never been established savagely murdered five prostitutes in London's East...