Word: vineyard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harried Seclusion Kennedy's lost night on Chappaquiddick off Martha's Vineyard and the mystifying week that followed brought back all the old doubts. For approximately nine hours after the car that he was driving plunged from Dike Bridge?carrying his only passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, to a death by drowning?Kennedy failed to notify police. After his first brief and inadequate statement at the station house, his silence allowed time for both honest questions and scurrilous gossip to swirl around his reputation and his future. Only once did the Senator leave the harried seclusion of the Kennedy compound...
...Kopechne Leave? According to both his first written statement and his television accounting, Kennedy and Mary Jo left the party about 11:15 p.m. Though he failed to repeat it on TV, his purpose, Kennedy told police, was to catch the last ferry at midnight back to Martha's Vineyard. The Senator, said one of the women last week, wanted to turn in early so that he would be rested for the second race the next day, and Mary Jo's mother later observed that "M.J." was a "sleeper" who usually retired early. Kennedy reportedly offered to take Miss Kopechne...
...Gargan and Markham drive him to the ferry crossing. The last scheduled ferry had already left?though it was possible by special arrangements to have service resumed. On a sudden impulse, Kennedy said, he jumped into the water and swam the 250-yard channel separating Chappaquiddick from Martha's Vineyard, "nearly drowning once again in the effort." Finally, he said, he collapsed in his hotel room, going out only once before morning to talk to a man he identified as a clerk. Russell E. Peachey, actually a co-owner of the Shiretown Inn, later told TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick that...
Driving down a deserted beach road at midnight on the island resort of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Senator Edward Kennedy lost control of his car. The black 1967 Oldsmobile 88 careened off a 10-ft.-wide wooden bridge leading to the dunes, and overturned in a salt pond. Somehow, Ted Kennedy escaped. His passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, a pretty, witty blonde who had worked as a secretary for Robert Kennedy, was not so fortunate. Trapped in the car, she drowned...
...explicable aspects of the mystery was the reason for Kennedy's presence on the Vineyard. Vacationing with his family on Squaw Island, near Hyannisport, he had come over with R.F.K.'s oldest son Joseph to take part in the Edgartown Yacht Club races. Less easily explained is why Kennedy, no stranger to the area, tried to ram a big car across a tilted bridge that is risky by day and perilous at night. The wide macadam road that leads to the Chappaquiddick ferry slip makes a turn to the left; the narrow dirt track that leads...