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20 “I thought she had gotten out”: Interview with John Tunney (2009).
21 “never had any kind of sexual relationship”: Interview with John Tunney (2009).
22 “I don’t feel guilty”: Interview with John Tunney (2009).
Chapter 41
1 “Something told me it was more than just a car in the water”: Peter S. Canellos, ed., The Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 158.
2 The same big black car: “Senator Kennedy Is Charged with Leaving Accident,” Vineyard Gazette, July 22, 1969.
3 “They [the Kennedys] don’t drive anywhere”: Canellos, The Last Lion, 160.
4 License plate L78207: George Lardner, Jr., “Chappaquiddick: A Tale Time Has Not Resolved,” Washington Post, November 12, 1979.
5 Associate county medical examiner: Robert Sherill, “A Tragedy, an Enigma, a Political Achilles Heel,” New York Times, July 14, 1974.
6 “difference between a big black car and a little white car”: Lardner, “Chappaquiddick: A Tale Time Has Not Resolved.”
7 “Senator Kennedy was driver”: Michael Cooper and John M. Broder, “FBI Opens Kennedy File,” New York Times, June 15, 2010
8 “working on what really happened”: Jere Hester, New York Daily News, “Haldeman Diaries Offer Another Look at Nixon,” Seattle Times, May 16, 1994.
9 F. Knott, “Robert Healy Oral History, Journalist, the Boston Globe,” Presidential Oral Histories—Edward M. Kennedy Histories, Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, August 10, 2005.
10 “Lead with the moonwalk or Chappaquiddick”: Transcript of interview with Robert Healy.
11 “happening at the worst possible moment for Ted Kennedy”: Lorraine Boissoneault, “Why the True Story of Chappaquiddick Is Impossible to Tell,” Smithsonian.com, April 2, 2018.
12 “I tried to interview people about it. Not only Kennedy”: Interview with Adam Clymer, reporter, the New York Times, The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, 2016.
13 “You knew you weren’t going to get anything from the Kennedys”: “Robert Healy Oral History, Journalist, the Boston Globe.”
14 “I was the driver”: Canellos, The Last Lion, 161.
15 “I’m in some trouble”: Rita Dallas with Jeanira Ratcliffe, The Kennedy Case (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973), 338.
16 “what he is, is just not enough”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 390.
17 “people think I’d be trying to get their sympathy”: Dallas, The Kennedy Case, 340–41.
18 “before he or anyone else told me what was going on”: Jim Rattray, “Joan Kennedy said Thursday Her Former Secretary and Confidante,…” United Press International, October 18, 1985.
19 “seemed to have trouble kneeling”: “Sen. Kennedy Attends Funeral of Secretary Killed in Wreck,” Desert Sun, July 22, 1969.
20 “a degree of alcohol, but it was very well down”: “Sen. Kennedy Attends Funeral of Secretary Killed in Wreck.”
21 “no business in giving a Breathalyzer”: “Ted Kennedy Car Accident in Chappaquiddick,” Newsweek, August 3, 1969.
22 A misdemeanor charge: Canellos, The Last Lion, 168.
23 “Has already been and will continue to be punished”: Canellos, 169.
24 “I think they disserved him”: Interview with Lester Hyman, The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, 2016.
25 “so impaired that I should resign”: Edward M. Kennedy, “Address to the People of Massachusetts on Chappaquiddick,” July 25, 1969, AmericanRhetoric.com.
26 “extremely favorable” ratings drop: Canellos, The Last Lion, 173.
27 “satisfied with the senator’s statement”: Canellos, 172.
28 “looking for blood money”: William Kashatus, “Remembering Mary Jo: A Promising Life Lost at Chappaquiddick 40 Years Ago,” Citizens’ Voice (Wilkes-Barre, PA), July 19, 2009.
29 “damn little, considering”: George Lardner Jr., “Chappaquiddick 1989,” Washington Post, July 16, 1989.
30 Suffers a miscarriage: United Press International, “Mrs. Joan Kennedy Goes Home After Miscarriage,” Desert Sun, September 1, 1969.
31 “nothing to do with Mary Jo Kopechne”: Interview with Lester Hyman.
32 “hang Chappaquiddick around Kennedy’s neck”: Michael Cooper and John M. Broder, “F.B.I. Opens Kennedy File,” New York Times, June 15, 2010.
33 “visited Greece in August, 1968”: Cooper and Broder, “F.B.I. Opens Kennedy File.”
34 “brought down by a mere Polish secretary”: Interview with Lester Hyman.
35 “He has nothing to fear”: “Former Detective Admits Leaking Chappaquiddick Probe Info to Kennedy Lawyer,” Associated Press, July 25, 1991.
36 “KENNEDY OUSTED AS WHIP”: John W. Finney, “Kennedy Ousted as Whip,” New York Times, January 22, 1971.