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From a sailboat offshore, two men and a woman swam to the beach on Chappaquiddick Island one recent afternoon. Some startled fishermen-and Edgartown Police Chief Jessie J. Oliver III-recognized one of the trio as Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Two days before he was to announce his withdrawal as a candidate for President in 1976, there was Kennedy walking meditatively on the island where his White House hopes foundered five years...
...time during the night of July 18-19, 1969, obviously was a crucial factor. Anticipating his candidacy and spurred by an effective New York Times Magazine piece by Robert Sherrill last July re-examining the case, several major news organizations had sent reporters to the tiny island across from Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. TIME'S own preliminary probe turned up facts that contradicted key points in Kennedy's version of what happened; further disclosures seemed likely...
...really did spot Kennedy's car, then the accident could not have occurred when Kennedy said it" did, and it is highly improbable that Kennedy and his friends would have had time for the rescue attempts they claimed to have made before Kennedy was seen in Edgartown. This would mean that Kennedy lied or erred about both the time of the accident and the events that followed it, and that those at the party were, at the very least, mistaken in their statements that he returned to the cottage at 12:15. One other possibility was that Kennedy and Mary...
...girl friends down to the bridge in a fruitless?and dangerous ?attempt to dive for her themselves, Kennedy instructed Markham and Gargan not to alarm them, said that he would take care of reporting the accident, then plunged alone into the channel and swam across to Edgartown. This despite the fact that the ferry could have been summoned by telephone. Gargan acknowledged that earlier in the day he had discussed post-midnight ferry service with the boat operators. Also, a sign giving instructions about the service was at the landing...
...Moral Strength." Kennedy did not report the accident on reaching Edgartown. Instead, he returned to his hotel, changed his clothes and, after a brief conversation with Innkeeper Russell Peachey in which he pointedly asked the time (2:25 a.m.), paced the floor of his room until daylight. Then occurred one of the more bizarre events in an already fantastic case. Rhode Island Businessman Ross Richards, who had won the previous day's sailing race, testified that he ran into Kennedy outside the hotel around 7:30 a.m. Giving no indication in manner or appearance that anything out of the ordinary...