Word: transcripts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...taken from 27 witnesses in 3½ days of questioning was released. District Justice James Boyle, who had favored an open hearing, ordered all witnesses to reveal nothing about what was said in court. Yet not only were there leaks, but Kennedy aides continued to urge that the entire transcript of the proceedings be revealed as speedily as possible. That desire, coupled with an air of resignation about District Attorney Edmund Dinis, the normally aggressive prosecutor who had pursued the case, made it apparent that the inquest had revealed nothing new that would seriously hurt Kennedy...
...transcript of the inquest, which fills 765 pages, was locked up in a courthouse vault and cannot be released until the Superior Court decides that no further prosecution of Kennedy is likely. That will depend heavily on the report to be made by Judge Boyle, who promised to act "without undue delay." Dinis can still file charges on his own, as can a grand jury. But a grand jury normally acts at the urging of a district attorney. It seems highly unlikely that Dinis will bother to press another misdemeanor charge, and his aides concede that there is no evidence...
...concerned, it may not completely clear up public uncertainty about the morality and maturity of Kennedy's actions on that long July night. What did Chappaquiddick reveal about his judgment? His reaction under stress? His fitness for higher office? The full inquest transcript could conceivably help resolve some of these doubts when it is released. But Mary Jo Kopechne will still be dead, and many will still wonder whether Kennedy did all he possibly could have done to prevent her death...
...transcript was disclosed at the federal extortion trial of Mafia Leader Angelo ("Gyp") De Carlo, 67, and three associates in Newark. It contained conversations recorded electronically by the FBI from 1961 to 1965, primarily at De Carlo's Mountainside, N.J., headquarters. It was the second major revelation of bugged New Jersey Mafia conversations in the past year. Parts of the dialogue had been published in LIFE in 1967. but the full transcript had never before been released to the general public. A sampler from the 1,200 pages of recorded conversations...
...Carlo and his associates talked as if they had been instrumental in electing many public officials, among them Governor Richard Hughes and Newark Mayor Hugh Addonizio. At one point, De Carlo (known as Ray in the transcript) discussed lining up a contribution for Addonizio's campaign...