{"id":11524,"date":"2025-07-21T10:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=11524"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:56:57","slug":"how-a-fatal-accident-ended-ted-kennedys-presidential-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=11524","title":{"rendered":"How a fatal accident ended Ted Kennedy&#8217;s presidential hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">But several suspicious details served to fuel speculation. &#8220;There are so many things,&#8221; Arena told the BBC. &#8220;For instance, even the morning we were called about the accident, he was seen at the Shiretown Inn, where he was staying, sitting having breakfast in somewhat of a casual manner.&#8221; A newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader, claimed that multiple long-distance telephone calls were made and charged to Kennedy&#8217;s credit card before he informed the police. There were allegations that he had asked &#8220;his cousin to say he had driven the car, but he had changed his mind&#8221;, said Saxon. &#8220;And that he didn&#8217;t make that impulsive swim back to the mainland, but friends instead provided a boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But several suspicious details served to fuel speculation. &#8220;There are so many things,&#8221; Arena told the BBC. &#8220;For instance, even the morning we were called about the accident, he was seen at the Shiretown Inn, where he was staying, sitting having breakfast in somewhat of a casual manner.&#8221; A newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader, claimed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4923,4924,3744,459,4926,3888,4925],"class_list":{"0":"post-11524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-ended","10":"tag-fatal","11":"tag-hopes","12":"tag-kennedys","13":"tag-presidential","14":"tag-ted"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}