I was in ROTC summer camp at Ft Bragg NC on a week long field exercise, cut off from the world. Came out of the field to hear not one but two stupendous news items: the Apollo 11 moon landing, and Chappaquiddick.
The Fayetteville newspaper gave much more coverage to the latter. Even at age 20 I thought “He’ll never be President now” with a sense of relief, after nine straight years of Kennedy-worship by the media.
What did Ed say to Mary when she told him they might miss the ferry boat? “We’ll run off that bridge when we get to it”.