Letters: Aug. 15, 1969

The Kennedy Tragedy

Sir: The Edward Kennedy tragedy [Aug. 1] shows in a symbolic way much of what is wrong with the liberal politician today. While looking all over the land for peoples to be saved—blacks, Puerto Ricans, the poor, Mexicans, Eskimos—Mr. Kennedy and his associates, when confronted with the opportunity of saving a single but real human life, failed miserably to take any action. They were paralyzed by "grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock."

RAFAEL CARAPELLA San Francisco

Sir: Now that the Kennedy bubble has burst, has it been just a bubble?...

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