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...death. Much of this new material is interesting, some of it is lucidly written-but it is included with little or no purpose: the authors fail to make any significant conclusions from all that they have discussed. The accounts ramble on-some good, most tedious-more like a topical transcript of Kennedy's activities in his last few years than a true biography. The problem is that On His Own's various parts do not directly contribute to the formulation of a single, comprehensive view of Kennedy or his life work. Its chapters remain disjointed from any main theme. What...
...BOOK Daniel Berrigan has produced from the court transcript of the nine is beautiful in its simple brilliance. In editing the testimony of the witnesses, jurors, judge, and defendants in the case, he has recognized and captured the lyrical poetry of common speech. Rightly, most of the book consists of the testimony of the nine. Each talks of the reasoning and the decisions that brought him to Catonsville. Yet the book is not unsympathetic to the problems of the witnesses, the prosecution, and the judge. In only a few lines by the draft board clerk named Mrs. Murphy, the tragedy...
...charges were possible against Senator Edward Kennedy: manslaughter, perjury or "driving to endanger," a traffic offense that is generally combined with other charges, notably drunken driving. Citing a ruling by the state's Supreme Judicial Court, the judge denied the jurors' request for a look at the transcript of the January inquest into the accident. District Attorney Edmund Dinis, who had access to both the transcript and the report on the proceedings by Presiding Justice James Boyle, told the jurors there was not enough evidence to indict Kennedy on any of the charges. The jurors themselves made...
...case is resolved, however, as far as the courts are concerned. Dinis' statement that no further action is planned clears the way for the release of the inquest transcript and Justice Boyle's report. All that stood in the way of the release was resolution of the kind of dispute that typifies courthouse politics in Massachusetts. Freelance Court Stenographer Sidney Lipman, following a well-established Bay State practice, made arrangements to offer the 764-page transcript for sale at $1.05 a page, or $802.20 a copy. He has sued to halt its publication by the court...
This approach has its drawbacks. Far too often through the transcript, the editors leave out basic legal arguments in order to serve up a full smorg-asbord of snippets of nasty conversation. Anyone who picks up this book hoping for clarification of the trial's legal mysteries is going to be disappointed. Until the "Final Summations" section, for example, it is almost impossible to figure out just what case the government is trying to make against the defendants...