○  英语演讲稿：Edward M. Kennedy: Chappaquiddick范文  ○

ard rails and was built on a left angle to the road. the car overturned in a deep pond and immediately filled with water. i remember thinking as the cold water rushed in around my head that i was for certain drowning. then water entered my lungs and i actual felt the sensation of drowning. but somehow i struggled to the surface alive.

i made immediate and repeated efforts to save mary jo be diving into strong and murky current, but succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm. my conduct and conversations during the next several hours, to the extent that i can remember them, make no sense to me at all.

although my doctors informed me that i suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, i do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either in the physical, emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or on anyone else. i regard as indefensible the fact that i did not report the accident to the policy immediately.

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nstead of looking directly for a telephone after lying exhausted in the grass for an undetermined time, i walked back to the cottage where the party was being held and requested the help of two friends, my cousin, joseph gargan and phil markham, and directed them to return immediately to the scene with me -- this was sometime after midnight -- in order to undertake a new effort to dive down and locate miss kopechne. their strenuous efforts, undertaken at some risk to their own lives also proved futile.

all kinds of scrambled thoughts -- all of them confused, some of them irrational, many of them which i cannot recall, and some of which i would not have seriously entertained under normal circumstances -- went through my mind during this period. they were reflected in the various inexplicable, inconsistent, and inconclusive things i said and did, including such questions as whether the girl might still be alive somewhere out of that immed

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