Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look Jr. persisted in his statement that he had seen a black car, like Kennedy's black 1967 Oldsmobile, go down the dirt road toward the bridge at 12:40 a.m. At that hour, Look was returning home from his weekend job as guard at the Edgartown Yacht Club. He insisted that the car, which, like Kennedy's, had a license plate beginning with the letter L, came out of School Road, which leads to the cottage where Kennedy's party had taken place. The car then crossed the intersection, drove onto a farmer...
Look had told the same story to Edgartown police even before Kennedy's car was brought out of the water. After the Senator's television statement, it seemed logical to assume that Look had not seen Kennedy's car but a second automobile that Kennedy and his two friends had taken to return to the scene in their attempt to rescue Mary Jo. Edgartown police believe that there were only two cars available to the Kennedy party: a white Valiant and a larger black car. If Kennedy's car went over the bridge when he said...
...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...
...public gave Kennedy high marks for his performance in the Senate. Yet the TIME-Harris poll reflects a widespread uneasiness about Kennedy as a presidential possibility. Forty percent agreed with the statement that "he panicked in a crisis and showed that he should not be given high public trust, such as being President"; 15% were not sure; 45% disagreed with the judgment...
Though the astronauts will not make any public statements until after their release on Aug. 12, NASA announced that, at Armstrong's request, it is amending the record of his first words on the moon. Armstrong explained that the article "a" had apparently been lost in transmission back to earth. Thus his statement should read: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." The change reflected the humility of the first mortal to reach the moon...