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Chronology of The Kennedys:
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1948
Just 28, Kathleen Kennedy,
daughter o f Joseph and Rose
Kennedy, dies with her lover in
the crash of a small plane in the
south o f France. K athleen
Kennedy’s first husband had died
in World War II.
1963
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, the
second son bom to John F and
Jacqueline Kennedy, is bom nearly
six weeks premature on Aug. 7.
He dies two days later of respira
tory ailments.
1963
JohnF. Kennedy, the 35th Presi
dent of the United States, is assas
sinated in Dallas on November 22
1968
Robert F. Kennedy, attorney
general under his older brother
President John F. Kennedy and
elected to the Senate in 1964, is
assassinated in Los Angeles while
running for president at age 42.
1969
Edward M. Kennedy’s dreams
of a presidential bid are dashed
when he drives a car off a bridge on
M assachusetts’ Chappaquiddick
Island July 18 after a party. Aide
Mary Jo Kopechne is later found
dead in the submerged car.
1984
David Anthony Kennedy son of
Robert F. Kennedy, battles drug
and alcohol problems all his short
life. He dies o f a heroin overdose
in a hotel near a family vacation
home in Palm Beach, Fla.
1986
Two-term U S. Representative
Patrick Joseph Kennedy, son of Ed
ward and Virginia Kennedy, seeks
treatment for cocaine addiction as
a teen-ager.
1991
1973
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, one of
seven sons of Robert and Ethel
Kennedy, is involved in a car acci
dent that leaves a female passenger
paralyzed for life.
1964
Massachusetts Senator Edward
M. Kennedy, brother o f John F.
Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy,
is critically injured in a June plane
crash.
riers for the physically and men
tally disabled.)
William Kennedy Smith, son of
Jean Kennedy and Stephen Smith, is
accused of raping a woman at the
family’s Palm Beach estate. He is
acquitted later that year.
1973
1997
Edward Moore Kennedy, Jr.,
son o f Edw ard and V irg in ia
Kennedy, has his right leg ampu
tated as a child because of bone
cancer. (Later, in 1985 he founds
Facing the Challenge, a non-profit
group devoted to eliminating bar-
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (son
of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy),
who was accused ofhaving an affair
with his family’s teen-age baby sit
ter, was killed on December 31 in a
skiing accident at Aspen Colorado.
He was 39 years old.
JFK Jr Presumed Dead in Plane
Crash: Continued
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Plane-maker New Piper Aircraft Inc.
and engine-maker Textron Inc. will
participate in the inquiry. Hall said.
‘Suffered Much, Given More’
In Washington, President Bill
Clinton asked Americans to sup
port the families. “Our thoughts
and prayers are with the families
of John Kennedy, and Carolyn and
Lauren Bessette,’’ he said today.
“For more than 40 years now
the Kennedy family has inspired
Am ericans to public service,
strengthened our faith in the fu
ture and moved our nation for
ward,” Clinton said last night.
“They have suffered much and
given more.”
Kennedy founded and edited
George, a politics magazine pub
lished by F ra n c e ’s H achette
Filipacchi Medias SA. Lauren
Bessette is a principal in Morgan
Stanley’s investment banking de
partment, a company spokesman,
J. W esley M cDade, said. He
wouldn’t elaborate.
Kennedy and his w ife had
Ex-SLA Member Pleads
Innocent
rent,” Fidler said. “It is the terror
ist weapon o f choice. It has no
discretion.”
Ms. Soliah’s daughters wept in
their father’s arms after the five-
hour hearing.
“Her family is very worried that
she won’t make bail,” said de
fense lawyer Susan Jordan. “A
million dollars is a lot of money,
(but) w e’re optimistic that it can
be raised.”
Ms. Soliah was a fugitive be
fore FBI agents acting on a tip
from the TV show “America’s
Most Wanted” captured her last
month in St. Paul, Minn. She was
extradited on Tuesday.
A 1976 grand jury indictment
unsealed Wednesday accused her
of placing pipe bombs filled with
nails under two Los Angeles police
cars in retaliation for a 1974 shootout
with police in which six members of
the SLA were killed. One bomb
malfunctioned and the other was
found before it could go off.
Ms. Soliah, charged with con
spiracy to commit murder and
other crimes, faces a maximum
sentence of life in prison.
The bail hearing also revealed
B t ROBERT JABLON
O
T he A sso ciated P ress
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An ac
cused terrorist-turned-housewife
has pleaded innocent to planting
bombs under police cars in 1975.
Kathleen Ann Soliah, 52, a sus
pected Symbionese Liberation
Army member who fled to Minne
sota and became a doctor’s wife
and mother o f three, entered the
plea Wednesday. She was ordered
held on $1 million bail.
The defense argued for a lower
bail, saying the woman who called
herself as Sara Jane Olson is a dif
ferent person from the one who
fled California in the turbulent
1970s and is no longer a flight risk.
Witnesses portrayed her as a
carin g ch u rch g o er who gave
Christmas parties, acted in local
theater, helped immigrants leam
English and served meals to the
homeless.
But Judge Larry Fidler said
prosecutors have accused her of
an act that could have killed police
officers and innocent bystanders.
“There is something about the
use of a bomb that 1 find ... abhor
that in 1986, Ms. Soliah tried to
reach a plea bargain that fell
through when prosecutors declined
to guarantee that she would not
receive jail time.
Prosecutor Michael Latin said
there was circumstantial evidence
linking Ms. Soliah to the bombing
attem pts, including statem ents
made by Patty Hearst, who was
kidnapped and held by the SLA in
1974 and later convicted o f taking
part in a bank holdup with SLA
members.
Ms. Hearst, now a mother of
two living in Connecticut, told the
TV show “ R ivera L ive” on
Wednesday that the government
had destroyed the case against Ms.
Soliah by convicting her.
“I’m a convicted felon now. A
bank robber. My credibility is
zero,” Ms. Hearst said. “How can
they convict her, if I’m the only
witness?”
“I resent this all being dredged
up. It is ancient history at this
point,” she added.
As for Ms. Soliah, Ms. Hearst
said: “I’m sorry for her children ...
she’s got a lot of explaining to do.”
Kennedy Concerns
Cited
H eym ann told Adam s that
Kennedy had told him over the
phone that he preferred to fly
straight to Hyannis but his wife
wanted him to drop her sister off
on M artha’s Vineyard first. “This
means I have to land twice. I’m
really not that experienced a pi-
lot,” Kennedy told Heymann, ac-
Jesse Jackson Exhorts
lack America
B> PAUL SHEPARD
O
T he A sso ciated P ress
NEW YORK (AP) - Jesse Jack-
son beseeched black America to
look beyond issues of race and
help lead a crusade to “save the
nation” with a renewed commit
ment to ending poverty.
“We can’t just save the black
room in a house if the whole house
is on fire. We must save the nation
and stop just reacting to the race
gap between us,” Jackson told
2,500 NAACP members at the
© T he A s so c ia t e d P resa
DENVER (AP) - Secretary of
State Victoria Buckley, who be
came the nation’s highest-ranking
black female Republican in a state
wide office, has died o f cardiac
arrest. She was 51.
Ms. Buckley, who had been hos
pitalized in January for an irregu
lar heartbeat, suffered severe brain
damage with no chance o f recov
ery, said her cardiologist Dr. Jeb
Burchenal. She died Wednesday.
“She overcame many challenges
in life and achieved high office in
our state through determination
and hard work,” GOP Gov. Bill
Owens said.
Congressman Mark Udall agreed.
“She was tenacious and dis
played courage in dealing with
tough issues. Vikki will be greatly
missed,” Udall, a Colorado Demo
crat, said.
Bom in Denver in 1947, Ms.
Buckley graduated from East High
School, and attended both the Uni
versity of Colorado at Denver and
Metropolitan State College.
She was a deputy in the secre
tary of state’s elections division
for 20 years before taking the top
post in 1994, becoming the first
black woman in Colorado to hold
a statewide office. At the time,
Ms. Buckley was a single mother
on welfare.
Among her accomplishments
was returning $9 million to the
state treasury from office fees.
“She was a dedicated public
servant who put the needs o f oth
ers ahead of her own, and her sen
sitivity on local and national is
sues will be sorely missed,” Rep.
J. C. Watts Jr., R-Okla., said in a
T he P o r t la n d O b ser ver
statement. “This is not just a tragic
loss for Colorado, but for all of
America.”
Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell
called her rise heroic and evidence
the American dream still works.
“Her story is a model for those
wanting to climb out of poverty
and improve their lives,” the Colo
rado Republican said.
Ms. Buckley’s two terms were
not without controversy.
She won re-election in Novem
ber following a bitter battle over
complaints that her office was in
disarray because of ballot disputes.
And on Monday, a Legislative
committee decided it would not
challenge her for hiring a former
campaign manager and close friend
as a $250-an-hour consultant.
Ms. Buckley’s survivors include
her parents, sister and three sons.
Funeral services are pending.
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terrupted by standing ovations.
Jackson praised the leadership of
NAACP President Kweisi Mftime.
saying, “You have lifted this orga
nization where it belongs.”
Jackson called for greater inclu
sion o f minorities and women in
America’s economic mainstream
and cited the recent victory o f the
U S. Women’s Soccer team in the
World Cup as a civil rights victory.
“Without Title IX and without
affirmative action, those women
would not have been on the field,”
Jackson said.
group’s annual national conven
tion Wednesday.
Jackson’s message was that
poverty and hopelessness aren’t
just black issues. He said a recent
fact-finding trip on which he ac
companied President Clinton to
Appalachia and elsewhere was co
ordinated to “help deracialize the
debate" on poverty.
For Jackson, the appearance at
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
was akin to a homecoming.
His speech was frequently in-
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cording to the Post account.
Kennedy used a co-pilot as re
cently as last week because he was
concerned about flying his plane
with a foot injury sustained in a
para-gliding accident, the Toronto
Star reported yesterday.
Kennedy brought the pilot to
help him work the Piper Saratoga’s
pedals on a flight to Toronto last
Monday, the newspaper reported,
citing Keith Stein, a vice president
at Magna International Inc., a Ca
nadian auto-parts maker.
Kennedy traveled to Toronto to
discuss selling a stake in his maga
zine to a group of investors led by
Stein, the Star reported.
Last week the New York Post
reported that Hachette’s president
and chief executive, Jack Kliger,
was less enthusiastic about the
magazine than his predecessor,
David Pecker. Hachette spokes
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was developing a strategy with the
publication ahead of the year-end
expiration of its contract with
Kennedy, the Post reported.
planned to attend the wedding of
his cousin Rory, daughter o f the
late Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
The wedding was postponed.
R adar records show ed the
plane’s last location at approxi
m ately 17 miles southwest o f
Martha's Vineyard. In 29 seconds,
the plane dropped from 2,500 feet
to 1,800 feet, which officials said
was within the plane’s capabilities.
Kennedy, a licensed pilot, ex
pressed misgivings last week about
making the flight to the Vineyard,
the New York Post reported to
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