Nation: WHO'S WHO AT THE KENNEDY INQUEST

ONLY Edward Moore Kennedy knows exactly what happened from the time he left the cookout on Chappaquiddick last month until his black Oldsmobile sedan capsized off the Dike Bridge, taking Mary Jo Kopechne to her death at the bottom of Poucha Pond. From that moment until some time before he reported the accident at 9:30 a.m., according to Kennedy's televised accounting a week later, he was "overcome by a jumble of emotions." "My conduct and conversations during the next several hours make no sense at all to me," he said.

What will the inquest,...

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