Word: accidental
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Joey Gargan was an assistant U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts from 1961 to 1964, when he entered private practice in Boston. If Gargan failed to advise Kennedy to report his accident promptly, it was not through ignorance of motor vehicle laws; he had handled countless claims arising from car accidents. Gargan...
Beyond the Kopechne and Kennedy families,* it has been the girls at the party whose lives have been most unsettled by the accident. "You can't begin to understand what it has been like," says Susan Tannenbaum, a congressional secretary. "I place a tremendous value on the right of...
By a strict construction, the law should be concerned with the simple questions: Was Kennedy driving while drunk? Did he drive recklessly? Why did he not report the accident immediately? Dinis can be expected to ask some of the broader questions that devil the public:
For those who remain unconvinced by Senator Kennedy's explanation of the accident, an inquest may provide a few answers, particularly since the judge wants Kennedy himself to appear. Boyle has agreed to let lawyers for the witnesses into the courtroom to advise their clients when they take the...
Boyle gave Kennedy a suspended sentence late in July for leaving the scene of an accident, saying at the time that Kennedy "has already been and will continue to be punished far beyond anything this court can impose." That statement suggests sympathy for Kennedy's predicament, but the judge...