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Kennedy claimed that his withdrawal was chiefly motivated by concern for his family. But the Chappaquiddick affair, in which Mary Jo Kopechne died some time during the night of July 18-19, 1969, obviously was a crucial factor. Anticipating his candidacy and spurred by an effective New York Times Magazine piece by Robert Sherrill last July re-examining the case, several major news organizations had sent reporters to the tiny island across from Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. TIME'S own preliminary probe turned up facts that contradicted key points in Kennedy's version of what happened...
...episode began with a party for twelve people. There were six women, former campaign workers for the late Robert Kennedy: Mary Jo; Rosemary Keough, 23; Maryellen Lyons, 27, and her sister Nance, 26; Esther Newberg, 26; and Susan Tannenbaum, 24. Besides Teddy, there were five men, longtime friends or retainers of the Kennedy clan: Jack Crimmins, 63, Kennedy's part-time chauffeur; Joseph Gargan, 39, Kennedy's cousin; Ray LaRosa, 41, a civil defense official and ex-fireman; Paul Markham, 39, a former U.S. Attorney; and Charles Tretter, 30, an attorney...
...miles in an Oldsmobile or a rented 1968 white Valiant to a small cottage for an evening cookout. Between 11:15 and 11:30 p.m., Kennedy told Crimmins-but no one else-that he was tired and was returning to his room at the Shiretown Inn in Edgartown. Mary Jo left too, telling the Senator that she wanted to be driven back to her motel, some two miles from the Shiretown. But Mary Jo told none of the others; she left her pocketbook and her room key at the cottage...
Kennedy described how he frantically tried to open the door and how Mary Jo struggled to escape. But he could not recall how he got out of the car. Despite a brace on his back, he dove seven or eight times in a futile attempt to save Mary Jo. Then he made his way 1.2 miles back to the cottage...
...Valiant, he drove back to the bridge with Gargan and Markham, who tried vainly to save Mary Jo. After driving to the ferry landing, Kennedy dove into the channel and swam the 500 feet to Edgartown. He walked to his motel, changed into dry clothes and collapsed on his bed. At 2:25 a.m. he spoke to Innkeeper Russell Peachey about the noise from a party near by. For reasons never fully explained, Kennedy told no one of the accident. The next morning he heard that his car had been discovered in Poucha Pond. Only then, ten hours after...