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Kennedy's story has always been the same. The weekend of the annual Edgartown Regatta there was a party for former RFK campaign workers in a cottage on Chappaquiddick Island, off Martha's Vineyard. A girl named Mary Jo Kopechne decided to return to her motel in Edgartown shortly after 11 p.m. Kennedy volunteered to drive her to the ferry, before it closed for the night. They never made it. Kennedy missed a turn and drove his black Oldsmobile 88 over the side of Dyke Bridge, the automobile plunging into Poucha Pond. Kopechne was found the next morning...
...several fruitless days -at a daily wage of $100-the anglers came up with unsuitable catches. Frantic, the film company sent to Florida, and a 13-ft. tiger shark was flown up, packed in ice like a gourmet CARE package. The imported fish hung from a hook on the Edgartown dock for four days, sending up such a powerful stench in the hot sun that it quickly lost much of its curiosity value. Some townsfolk reciprocated later by depositing on Canuck and Brown's doorstep the moldering carcasses of sharks from local waters...
...about 9 a.m., a skindiver, John N. Farrar, retrieved the stiffened body of the 28-year-old woman. An hour later Kennedy told Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena that he had been the driver...
...about 8:30 p.m., the Senator and the others had taken the ferry from Edgartown to Chappaquiddick and driven three miles in an Oldsmobile or a rented 1968 white Valiant to a small cottage for an evening cookout. Between 11:15 and 11:30 p.m., Kennedy told Crimmins-but no one else-that he was tired and was returning to his room at the Shiretown Inn in Edgartown. Mary Jo left too, telling the Senator that she wanted to be driven back to her motel, some two miles from the Shiretown. But Mary Jo told none of the others...
...Valiant, he drove back to the bridge with Gargan and Markham, who tried vainly to save Mary Jo. After driving to the ferry landing, Kennedy dove into the channel and swam the 500 feet to Edgartown. He walked to his motel, changed into dry clothes and collapsed on his bed. At 2:25 a.m. he spoke to Innkeeper Russell Peachey about the noise from a party near by. For reasons never fully explained, Kennedy told no one of the accident. The next morning he heard that his car had been discovered in Poucha Pond. Only then, ten hours after...