European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In pics say Hal Kennedy s Liberal politics Are Oul of Slop with the american Public and even his own paly. He s the  says Alexander Tennant executive director of Iho Massachusetts Republican party he s somewhat Oul of Louch with the average working person he believes in government solving problems and i think a lol of younger people Loday believe in free Enterprise and helping others to help themselves not building a huge bureaucracy where government is big by filter and opponents Point to the Rupert Murdoch Flap started when Kennedy quietly pushed through an amendment to prevent Ihbe publisher irom keeping both to stations and newspapers in Boston and new York As an example of Ati Gance. Later this year he Likely will lace another wave of controversy when a Washington publishing House releases a new Book about his 1969 Accident Al Chappaquiddick thai killed passenger Mary to Kopechne. Trio Book charges that there was a conspiracy to cover up Kennedy s role in the Accident. Kennedy s popularity in Massachusetts overcame the shadows of Chappaquiddick but the Accident loomed Large in his presidential Campaign. Many believe the senator s action. Swimming to safety when Kopechne was trapped in the car and not reporting the Accident until 10 hours later blocked him from the White House. A Chuio sen. Edward m. Kennedy with  nov. Michael 3. Dukakis enjoying his role a a party elder ready to Cany the ideological Banner of new Deal Liberal Ltd into the 1990s. Author Leo Damore says in his new Book. Santoria privilege the Chappaquiddick coverup. That Kennedy initially wanted to Tell police that Mary to Kopechne was atone in the car when it plunged off the Bridge. The both Loba published in june by regnery Gateway is based on exclusive interviews with Joseph Gargan a Cousin and close Friend of Iho senator who along Wilh another Friend Paul Markham returned to the Bridge to try to Rescue Kopechne from the submerged car. Kennedy was having alternative ideas Aboul the situation Damore wrote. Why could t Mary to have been driving the car Why could t she have Lei him off and driven to the Larry herself and made a wrong Lurn but Gargan reportedly rejected the idea noting Hal the three did not even know if Kopechne could drive or had a License. The Book says Kennedy did not decide to Tell police that he was driving until speaking by Telephone with aide David Burke. Ii look about 10 hours Lor Kennedy to report the Accident an action that he Laler called irrational and indefensible and inexcusable and  Kennedy now says running Lor president again has to be considered  Yel even if a Democrat is elected this year and re elected in 1992, Kennedy would Only be 64 by the time the next presidential year Rolls around in 1996. Who knows what the future brings Kerry says. In politics All things Are  University of Virginia Law school runs citizens Energy corp., the non profit Oil company started by brother Joe to help the poor get Low Cost heat. Growing up in my family it was Clear that you had to give something Back not Only to your family and your Community but your country. Whether that came directly from my father or As much from my Mother i guess it s a Basic Christian attitude Michael said. He took Over citizens Energy after Joe two years ago won the Massachusetts congressional Seal once held by their Uncle Jack and their Grandfather Michael was a fund Raiser for the Campaign. Rep Kennedy was by his Mother to deliver the Eulogy at a memorial mass june 6, Al Frk s grave Sita Al the Arlington National cemetery. Kennedy refused repeated requests Lor an interview. He and his Wie Sheila touch have twins. Ethel Kennedy presides Over the family estate Hickory Hill located n this Washington suburb and has organized memorials. She generally prefers to have her children speak Lor the family. Daughter Kathleen a Maryland lawyer said her father believed thai politics is an honorable profession and i think that s Why so Many of his children Are interested in politics. He believed Hal we should each do our Best. He had a sense of Justice and injustice and if hangs were wrong one should not just Sil idly by but do something about  she said she will Likely run for office again following her 1986 congressional defeat to a Republican incumbent. Meanwhile she directs a Community service program Tor High school students Al the Maryland department of education. Chairwoman of the Robert f. Kennedy memorial foundation she is married to David Townsend and they have three children. He Yak to i photos Many of the children of Robert and Ethel Kennedy including Joe and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend have gone on to embrace their father s ideals. Kerry Kennedy a Boson College Law school graduate was Field director of her brother s 1986 Campaign. Earlier this year she created Tho Robert f. Kennedy Center for human rights at the foundation to work on projects with the winners of the foundation s annual human rights awards. It is a Way she said of carrying Forth the ideals of the winners and the ways that they shared my lather s  which she described As one of love and compassion and  the Center sent a delegation to South Korea earlier this year to meet Wilh human rights leaders and government officials. Among other planned projects Are a series of medical clinics in Poland. My lather believed in  Kerry said. She s leaving her position As. Treasurer of her brother s Campaign to Courtney Kennedy Ruhe who lives in Manhattan Wilh her husband of eight years David Ruhe. Not All of Robert Kennedy s children have entered Public service and some have been crushed by  slaying of Frk totally devastated the family bul struck Al the oldest boys the hardest said David Horowitz co author of the Kennedy an american drama. In april 1984, an overdose of painkillers Ranqui liners and cocaine kilted David Kennedy who some say was alone in a hotel room watching news reports the night his father was gunned Down june 5,1968. Robert f. Kennedyjr. Pleaded guilty id heroin Possession in 1983. Received a iwo year suspended sentence and spent time in a drug treatment Center. Today he is an environmental Law attorney in new York and is teaching Al Pace University. Kennedy and his wife of six years Emily Black also a lawyer have two children. A foundation spokeswoman said he was not granting interviews. Some of the clan were just in lands or preschoolers when their father was filled. Christopher Kennedy worked on his brother s Campaign. The Boson College graduate last year married Sheila Berner and is working at the family owned merchandise Mart in Chicago. Max Kennedy is about to graduate from Harvard As a history major. Douglas Kennedy who has completed his Sophomore year Al Boston College has been involved in homeless issues working Wilh activism Milch Snyder. Rory Kennedy a Brown University freshman who was born six months after the assassination has worked Wilh Kerry on the human rights Center. 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