Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Accident Happen? Leaving the cottage in his black 1967 Oldsmobile, Kennedy was almost at once brought up against a T-junction. If he had turned left, he would have continued along the paved Chappaquiddick Road leading toward the ferry crossing. But he turned his car right onto a dirt road leading to the wooden bridge and to the beach beyond. In his first statement to police, Kennedy explained that he had simply made a wrong turn, heading to the right. That meant he would have had to overlook a reflector arrow pointing the way to the ferry, and longtime residents...
...continued long past the time of the accident. The remaining members of the group missed the ferry back to Edgartown and spent the night in the cottage. There were not enough beds to go around and some had to sleep on couches or the floor. Apparently Markham and Gargan left the party to help Ted without being noticed. What they did or where they were for the remainder of the night is still not known...
...most part, agreed prior to the television speech that Kennedy had some explaining to do. The usually sympathetic Boston Globe stated editorially: "It is in his own best interest as well as the public's that all the facts should come out." The Cleveland Press, reviewing the questions left unanswered by Ted's police station statement, declared: "The public is entitled to a better explanation than it has had yet." For all its smooth carpentry, the television statement did not dispel most such doubts and questions. The New York Times, which had begun its coverage in a mild and reticent...
...source of speculation. Until Kennedy went before the cameras, a report by a county deputy sheriff, Christopher Look, that he had seen three people in a car headed toward the bridge at 12:40 a.m.?almost an hour and a half after Kennedy had said that he had left the party?was a mine of burning gossip. The three people, of course, were most likely Kennedy, Gargan and Markham. (See the most memorable quotes by Senator Kennedy...
McCarthy's announcement left his seat open to Hubert Humphrey, who feels a little underemployed in academe and is eager to get back into politics. Humphrey heard the political news while stopping at Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, on his way back from his visit to Russia. McCarthy's decision not to run, said Hubert, "opens many possibilities." No one doubts that the former Vice President will have an easy time returning to the Senate from Minnesota...