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When a story of the crime lodges in the headlines, the myths have a way of cluttering the search for the truth. The tale of Good Friday in Palm Beach landed in the news because it involved a Kennedy, but it may end up as a watershed case, because all the mysteries and passions surrounding date rape are here to be dissected. William Kennedy Smith met a woman at a bar, invited her back home late at night and apparently had sex with her on the lawn. She says it was rape, and the police believed her story enough...
...Palm Beach case serves to remind women that if they go ahead and press charges, they can expect to go on trial along with their attacker, if not in a courtroom then in the court of public opinion. The New York Times caused an uproar on its own staff not only for publishing the victim's name but also for laying out in detail her background, her high school grades, her driving record, along with an unattributed quote from a school official about her "little wild streak." A freshman at Carleton College in Minnesota, who says she was repeatedly raped...
Certainly cases like Palm Beach, movies like The Accused and novels like Avery Corman's Prized Possessions may force young people to re-examine assumptions they have inherited. The use of new terms, like acquaintance rape and date rape, while controversial, has given men and women the vocabulary they need to express their experiences with both force and precision. This dialogue would be useful if it helps strip away some of the dogmas, old and new, surrounding the issue. Those who hope to raise society's sensitivity to the problem of date rape would do well to concede that...
This strategy was so successful that Senator Edward Kennedy managed to keep his seat in Congress and even run a plausible campaign for the presidency after Chappaquiddick. The Kennedy approach is at work again in the investigation by Palm Beach police into charges that William Kennedy Smith raped a young woman on the grounds of the Kennedy estate during Easter weekend...
...actions were reckless and irresponsible. It was Kennedy who roused his son and nephew from a sound sleep on Good Friday night to ask, according to the Senator's own deposition, "if they wanted to have a couple of beers." The three men then set out for Au Bar, Palm Beach's hottest club, thus setting in motion the chain of events that ended with the alleged rape. There they met the 29-year-old woman who later accused Smith, and Michele Cassone...