“The trio then went to the ferry slip, where Kennedy dove into the water and swam back to Edgartown, about a mile away.”
There is no way that Ted Kennedy could swim a mile.
There are some spots where the island is less that 700 ft from the mainland...if my reading of the map is correct.
bfl
You may be right but he was in better shape back then. In earlier years I read that he had climbed the matterhorn so he indeed was fit in his youth.