Word: jo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That no comprehensive investigation into the circumstances of Mary Jo Kopechne's death has been made is alarming. That Kennedy is permitted to avoid investigation via a guilty plea to a relatively minor offense and then to generate sympathy with unverified emotional answers to his own selected questions is a discredit to this nation's legal and political systems...
...authorities investigating the death of Mary Jo Kopechne have caused nearly as much uncertainty as Edward Kennedy's own partial explanations of the accident that killed her. At first, there was almost total reluctance in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., to press the inquiry. Kennedy's plea of guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident seemed to end the legalities. Now, at least one more chapter in the tortured proceeding is assured...
...last week to resolve procedural confusion over whether or not to hold a belated inquest. The conference ended with Boyle's announcement that an inquest would be convened in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, on Sept. 3. At the same time, Dinis continued his efforts to have Mary Jo's body exhumed so that an autopsy could be conducted...
Americans are inclined to accept many of the details of Kennedy's explanation: that he took the wrong turn onto the bridge road by mistake, that he dived several times in an effort to rescue Mary Jo Kopechne, that he returned later with Paul Markham and Joseph Gargan in an effort to reach the girl. By a plurality of 44% to 31%, those interviewed also accept his statement that he impulsively swam from Chappaquiddick to Martha's Vineyard...
When asked whether, on the night of the accident, Kennedy seemed more interested in his political future than in what happened to Mary Jo Kopechne, 38% agreed. By an overwhelming 77% to 14%, respondents said that Kennedy was wrong not to report the accident immediately...