Word: jo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragic and triumphant saga of the nation's most eminent modern political dynasty. Americans have gone through the bright hopes of Camelot and the dark night of two Kennedy assassinations. They were both titillated and dismayed by the spectacular dramas of Jackie's widowhood and remarriage and by Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick...
...public claims that he is not a man who panics, recently told a staffer, "Kennedy has no idea what he's in for." If not, the Senator has only to look around him. While campaigning in Louisville two weeks ago, he was confronted not only with placards bearing Mary Jo's name, misspelled as Kopechna, but also with a dummy of a female corpse and the sign KILLER...
...mother, Liz, played by Jo Henderson with skill, zest and daring, is rather like the father in "Da, " a character who follows you right out of the theater...
Drawing parallels between Ted Bundy--a Floridian accused of murdering 26 women and whose folk hero status is celebrated in T-shirts and songs--and Ted Kennedy, who Morgan says has not yet offered a sufficient explanation of Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick, Morgan warned, "Trust not ye the right or the left on any issue in which women's lives are at stake...
WHICH LEAVES TEDDY. Still not a candidate, still expecting Carter to be nominated, elected, the whole bit. And campaigning his ass off. All across the nation idealistic young workers are leading the Kennedy charge with cries of "Chappawhat? Mary Jo who? Forget S 1." Ted's record in the Senate is one of long and principled support for progressive legislation, from full employment to national health to tax reform. But S1 and its renumbered offshoots make you stop and think again. Nixon wanted above all to stamp out the demonstrators who were impeding his efforts in Vietnam, and the journalists...