Posted on 03/19/2018 4:42:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
So it would have been easy for any or all to have done so, but I don't recall any having said they saw him wet. I'm don't even know if they were asked. Markham and Gargan, I believe, in the morning, were noticed to have been wet.
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I have never seen any of their testimony published or if they were ever questioned.
I think Ted was pretty much inebriated all the time. I doubt that was the first nor last time he went swimming in less than optimum conditions.
I didn’t know about Jean Seberg either. Hmmmm, I wonder if that is partly responsible for her suicide.
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“Chappaquiddick Speaks” Finished the book yesterday. Had some very interesting and new points for me. A bit over long and repetitive, but thought provoking. The day after the “accident” Nixon had an investigator on the scene asking all the questions the regular authorities avoided. And before he reported the accident to the police, Kennedy had made 17 phone calls; one of which was to his private pilot who spirited Mary Jo off the island. He also called his then German mistress twice. The mistress knew before the cops. What a guy.
getting off the island was a phone call away. There was a sign posted on the ferry landing, and borrowing rowboats was also a common and accepted local practice.
[Just going back over this thread, and so the delayed reply.]
Kennedy testified that it was just after 11:15 PM, and he said the same thing in his nationally televised speech about the incident. Here's an excerpt from the statement he gave police the following morning:
On July 18, 1969, at approximately 11:15 p.m. in Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, I was driving my car on Main Street on my way to get the ferry back to Edgartown. I was unfamiliar with the road and turned right onto Dike Road, instead of bearing hard left on Main Street. After proceeding for approximately one-half mile [800 m] on Dike Road I descended a hill and came upon a narrow bridge. The car went off the side of the bridge.Deputy Sheriff Huck Look says he saw a car matching the description of Kennedys car on Chappaquiddick Island (Not many cars on Chappaquiddick Island!) sometime between 12:30 and 12:45 AM. Quoting Wikipedia:
Christopher "Huck" Look was a deputy sheriff who was working that night as a special police officer at the Edgartown regatta dance. At 12:30 a.m., Look left the dance, crossed over to Chappaquiddick in the yacht club's launch boat, got into his parked car and drove toward his home, which was south of the Dike Bridge. He testified that between 12:30 and 12:45 a.m., he saw a dark car approaching the intersection of Dike Road. The car was driven by a man with a female passenger in the front seat. The car first drove onto the private Cemetery Road and stopped there. Thinking that the occupants of the car might be lost, Look got out of his car and walked towards the other vehicle. When he was 25 to 30 ft (7.6 to 9.1 m) away, the car started backing towards him. When Look called out to offer his help, the car moved quickly eastward, towards the ocean, along Dike Road leaving a cloud of dust.[10] Look recalled that the car's license plate began with an "L" and contained two "7"'s, both details true of Kennedy's 1967 four-door Oldsmobile Delmont 88; the license plate on Kennedy's vehicle was "L78-207"One of them is lying or mistaken. (Guess who!)
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I thought the ferry closed down at night.
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