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...m.p.h. over treacherous Dike Bridge; Boyle termed that speed excessive. Worse, from Kennedy's viewpoint, was Boyle's official finding challenging Kennedy's story that he and Mary Jo left a party to go to the ferry that would take them from Chappaquiddick to their separate lodgings in Edgartown. A paved road bearing left led to the ferry. A dirt road going right led to Dike Bridge and a deserted beach. Said Boyle: "I infer that Kennedy and Kopechne did not intend to return to Edgartown at that time; that Kennedy did not intend to drive to the ferry slip...
...Mary Jo consumed a small amount of alcohol. The inquest also confirmed why Rosemary Keough's purse, and not Mary Jo's, was later found in the Senator's submerged car. Miss Keough, it seemed, had accompanied Charles Tretter, one of Kennedy's friends, on a trip back to Edgartown for a radio earlier in the evening, and had left her purse in the Senator's Oldsmobile...
...accident. Kennedy testified that he left the cottage with Mary Jo at approximately 11:15 p.m. on July 18, and did not stop his car before it ran off the bridge. Those at the party confirm Kennedy's departure time. But Look testified that while returning from work in Edgartown he saw a car fitting the description of Kennedy's stopped near the turn to Dike Road about 12:40 a.m., nearly half an hour after Kennedy said he had returned to the cottage on foot, and more than an hour after the Senator said that the accident had occurred...
Sidney Lipman, the freelance stenographer who worked at the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest in Edgartown, has changed all that. A plump, tenacious Bostonian of 45, Lipman insists that he has the right to sell copies of the inquest transcript for publication. Not only has the controversy forced the Suffolk Superior Court to impound the document until the issue is resolved; it has suddenly made court stenographers highly visible and subject to sharp questions about their rights and roles...
Lipman filed suit to block that release. Said he: "We worked very hard in Edgartown, and I spent a lot of money getting the transcript to the judge every morning. Now I'm just asking to get what I deserve from...