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12 Bowman will later testify: Mary Jordan, “Smith’s Tearful Accuser Tells of Yelling ‘Stop!’” Washington Post, December 5, 1991.
13 “arch my back to get him off me”: Margolick, “Accuser in Smith Trial Tells of Fear and Rape.”
14 “I was yelling, ‘No!’”: Margolick.
15 “he told me to ‘Stop it, Bitch,’”: Margolick.
16 “pushed my dress up and he raped me”: Margolick.
17 “thought he was going to kill me”: Taylor, “Men on Trial.”
18 “screaming and wondering why no one”: “Prosecutor in Palm Beach Rape Case Releases Police Affidavit With AM-Kennedy-Assault, Bjt,” Associated Press, May 9, 1991.
19 “didn’t know that the police would care or would come”: Margolick, “Accuser in Smith Trial Tells of Fear and Rape.”
20 “I didn’t know what power they held”: David Margolick, “Smith Accuser Was ‘Very Shook Up’ After Incident, Her Friend Testifies,” New York Times, December 4, 1991.
21 “maybe they owned the police”: Ocker, “Kennedy Smith Trial.”
22 Police Affadavit: “Prosecutor in Palm Beach Rape Case Releases Police Affadavit,” Associated Press.
23 “calmest, smuggest, most arrogant man”: Dominick Dunne, “The Verdict,” Vanity Fair, March 1992.
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1 “she looked messed up”: David Margolick, “Smith Accuser Was ‘Very Shook Up’ After Incident, Her Friend Testifies,” New York Times, December 4, 1991.
2 Items taken as proof: “Prosecutor in Palm Beach Rape Case Releases Police Affidavit with AM-Kennedy-Assault, Bjt,” Associated Press, May 9, 1991.
3 “all this fear and this dirtiness”: David Margolick, “Accuser in Smith Trial Tells of Fear and Rape,” New York Times, December 5, 1991.
4 “traumatic event of some sort”: Paul Richter, “Smith’s Accuser Testifies to Rape at Kennedy Home: Trial: Sometimes Tearful, She Tells Her Assertion of a ‘Disgusting’ Crime but Says She Cannot Recall Some Events,” Los Angeles Times, December 5, 1991.
5 “Regressive behavior is a little hard to fake”: Richter, “Smith’s Accuser Testifies to Rape at Kennedy Home.”
6 “really whacked out”: “The Day a Kennedy Was Accused of Rape at the Family’s Palm Beach Mansion,” Miami Herald archives, April 15, 2019.
7 “This is really a setup”: “The Day a Kennedy was Accused of Rape at the Family’s Palm Beach Mansion.”
8 “she will say it is rape”: “Witness Says Kennedy Spoke with Nephew About Rape Allegation,” New York Times, September 7, 1991.
9 “don’t go up to the Kennedy house unless you expect to be raucous”: Michelle Green, “Boys’ Night Out in Palm beach,” People, April 22, 1991.
10 “David tapped his father’s sensitivity”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 540.
11 “throwing rocks at strangers—or LBJ”: Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 383.
12 “lost this father in a most horrible way”: B. Drummond Ayres, Jr., “A Troubled Kennedy Makes Last Trip Home,” The New York Times, April 27, 1984.
13 “saved David’s life the very same day he lost his own”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 253.
14 “as if he thought God had traded his life in for his Dad’s”: Taraborrelli, After Camelot, 253.
15 “No one ever talked to me about what I was feeling”: Peter Carlson, “Ethel & David: Troubled Mother, Tormented Son,” People, May 14, 1984.
16 “not a subject I want to discuss”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 362.
17 “one thing led to another”: Taraborrelli, After Camelot, 253.
18 Hitchhiking to New York City and buying heroin: Carlson, “Ethel & David.”
19 “wasn’t any reason to be good any more”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 361.
20 “His SuperKennedy act”: Collier and Horowitz, 399.
21 “typical Kennedy horseplay”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 241.
22 Receiving morphine: Carlson, “Ethel & David.”
23 “pneumonia”: Taraborrelli, After Camelot, 254.
24 “David was the Kennedy screwup, not Bobby”: Taraborrelli, After Camelot, 262.
25 “Kennedys don’t fail”: Taraborrelli, 273.
26 “the same as everybody else, except better”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 321.
27 “She was a hindrance; I am a hindrance”: Collier and Horowitz, 441.
28 staggering amounts of alcohol: Carlson, “Ethel & David.”
29 “God invented alcohol to keep the Irish from ruling the world”: Janet Maslin, “Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption,” New York Times, September 28, 2005.
30 Unable to locate him: Associated Press, “Caroline Kennedy Tried to Reach David Before Death,” Los Angeles Times, January 15, 1985.