“Doubtful”? He’s still in office 40 yrs later, in spite of being a vegetable. He got away with it. It wasn’t “doubtful” either. It’s a damn shame.
JFK had crew asleep or not at stations when they got run over by a ship half their speed, and five times their length.
Joe got his aircrew killed when the electronics officer said the aircraft was unsafe and refused to fly.
Ted.
Young Joe got a girl paralyzed when he flipped a jeep on the Cape.
John John killed his wife and her sister as the pilot and responsible operator knowing flying in violation of his license restriction.
Kennedy did not have the sense of decency to resign at the time of the Kopechne incident. Apparently the people of Massachusetts approved of his behavior as they returned him to the Senate in the 1970 election with 62% of the vote and have continued to send him to the Senate for 40 years.