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Paul F. Markham, former US attorney who was at Chappaquiddick the night of Kennedy’s car crash, dies at 89
Stepping out the door, Mr. Markham found Kennedy in the back seat of a car. Joseph F. Gargan — a Kennedy cousin who also was attending the party — was in the driver’s seat. Mr. Markham climbed in the front passenger seat and the three headed to the Dike Bridge.
At an inquest months later, Mr. Markham testified about that moment when they arrived at the scene: “Up to this time I didn’t know what the accident really was and I remember saying, ‘Holy God.’ ”
Mr. Markham, who was 89 when he died July 13 in Brooksby Village in Peabody, was no stranger to high-pressure or high-profile moments when he stepped out of that car 50 years ago this month next to a bridge that would forever figure prominently in the nation’s political history.
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