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Show Thursday, November 15, 1373. THE HERALD, Provo, n Edward Moore Kennedy was presiding States Senate. over the United 1963, Robert, was attorney general. Today, Kennedy alone survives as the heir to the political image created by his brothers. The trauma of the assassination was barely starting to heal when Kennedy himself was almost killed in a small Diane crash that took the lives of the pilot and a Kennedy aide. Kennedy's back was broken. Sen. Birch Bayh. who also was aboard, was thown clear and pulled Kennedy out of the wreckage. Kennedy, who had been elected to an unexpired term, sought a languid debate on library held the attensenators present on that slow Friday 10 years ago. Hardly noticed, a Senate aide slipped through the swinging doors of' the chamber and whispered to Kennedy: "Senator, your brother, the President, has been shot." For Ted Kennedy, the ensuri- full, term in 1964. He ng decade has brought so much couldn't campaign actively personal tragedy that he once because of his injuries, but it was moved to question "whether didn't matter. He won with more some awful curse did actually than 74 per cent of the vote. On the same day, Robert F. hang over all the Kennedys." At the same time, it has been 10 Kennedy, who had resigned as years of almost unmarred attorney general, was elected to political success that has left him the Senate from New York. in fact, if not in title, the leader of Unlike his brothers, who were the Democratic Party. frustrated by the Senate, Ted When John F. Kennedy was Kennedy seemed to enjoy the shot in Dallas, Ted Kennedy was, atmosphere and became a at 31, the youngest member of willing member of the chamthe Senate. Despite his youth, he ber's growing liberal bloc. fit easily into the "club." He worked hard, both for the He was healthy, rich, marof his home state of interests ried and a member of the family Massachusetts and for broader the nation's that captured fancy measures dealing with immiand an administration that had apportionment, the lifted the country out of the gration, control, ghettos and draft, gun complacency of the Eisenhower migrant labor. era. In 1962, President Kennedy had Although slower than Robert to to for the not run Edward decide the Vietnam War was urged Senate, fearing it would create a fruitless and wrong, by 1968 he and a dynasty issue, especially since was for brother, another Kennedy strategy. Later A funding barely tion of the few six-ye- old Kennedy machine was eager that year, he called for an to put hi.n on the Democratic to start up once more. 1968. in ticket bomunconditional halt in the presidential Then it was July 18. 1969, and is it " ... For me, this year bing. tragedy struck again. And when Robert decided to impossible," Kennedj said. Sometime before midnight, a looked future But the political 1968 seek the presidential car Kennedy was driving went soon as nomination, Ted and many cf bright and almost as on off a narrow bridge was elected, Nixon President those who had been with John F. Island, carrying Chappaquiddic as the of was talk Kennedy Kennedy hit the campaign trail there to her death Mary Jo Kopech-ne- , Democratic candidate in 1972. again. a young poliical devotee of veterousted He surprisingly Then it was June 6, 1968. the Kennedys. of Robert F. Kennedy was shot by an Sen. Russell B. Long Ksnnedy related later that he another assassin in Los An- Louisian as Senate Democratdived repeatedly in an effort to ic whip in 1969, increasing his geles. save Miss Kopechne but then He also Senate. in the Some friends counseled Ted stature the seniority opened himself to widespread Kennedy to retire from politics. was climbing criticism by not reporting the and two ladder of He was now the head rapidly was becomaccent to police for several for fatherless families, plus his own, ing a chief spokesman hours. liberal goal. and there was always the chance virtually every emotional an in Later, three kids, new home, He had a of a third assassination. Kennedy address, in almost television tremendous popularity to But Kennedy decided carry "indefensible" his action called and the the of country every part on although he fended off efforts 15 : age II It'sB een Evenffui 10 Years for Ted Kennedy Since By STEVE GERSTEL the WASHINGTON (UPI) -Iof Nov. 22, early afternoon hours Utah-P- WIGS tom by "grief, fear, doubt, torture, panic, and exhaustion confusion, slwck." Kennedy asked Massachusetts voters to help him decide whether to resign from the Senate. He di'' not quit and won another term in 1970 with a pledf t to serve his full term. That was the first indication he would not run for the presidency in 1972, although there were skeptics. And while he kept his Senate his Senate he iost seat, leadership post to Sen. Robert C. presidential nomination. After Sen. George S. McGov-ewon the nomination, Kennedy turned down McGovern's entreaties to become his vice presidential running mate. He campaigned hard for McGo-vehowever, as well as for other Kennedy allies across the country. Since Nixon'i the speculation, has started about Kennedy s 1976 amLiions, a subject with which he is not ready to deal publicly. But with the country in crisis over Watergate scandals and the Byrd,D-W.Va- . Democratic party shattered by Citing family reasons, Kenne- last year's election, Kennedy is dy stayed out when the battles again in the political spotlight. began for the 1972 Democratic Indicating that he might be btit said he was winds, testing the political Kennedy shared a podium with Gov. George C. Wallace at a July 4 rally in Alabama. There have also been meetings and calls to prominent Democrats around ' the country. It is too early to tell if Kennedy will fulfill a prophecy which his brother, John F. Kennedy, made in 1959. It Is as applicable now as it was then although John F. Kennedy was referring to the Senate. 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