Lawyer, Kennedy friend 伴う／関わるd in Chappaquiddick 衝突，墜落 dies
PEABODY, 集まり. (AP) - A former 連邦の 検察官，検事 who was on Chappaquiddick Island the night of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy's fateful car 衝突，墜落 has died.
Paul Markham died July 13 in Peabody, Massachusetts, によれば an obituary 地位，任命するd by the Gately Funeral Home. A funeral was held July 18, the 50th 周年記念日 of the 1969 衝突，墜落. He was 89.
Markham was one of two people Kennedy confided in after 運動ing his Oldsmobile sedan off a 狭くする 橋（渡しをする） on the tiny island, which is 位置を示すd off the famous 訴える手段／行楽地 island of Martha's Vineyard.
Kennedy's 乗客, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, 溺死するd in the 衝突，墜落 and Kennedy was unable to pull her out of the water.
But instead of 警報ing 当局, Kennedy returned to a party he and Kopechne had …に出席するd and sought out Markham, who had recently 辞職するd as U.S. 弁護士／代理人／検事 for Massachusetts.
Markham and Kennedy cousin Joseph Gargan drove to the 衝突，墜落 scene that night with the 上院議員.
Markham later 証言するd that the two dove into the waters 非常に／多数の times in an 不成功の 試みる／企てる to 位置を示す Kopechne, who'd been a （選挙などの）運動をする 労働者 for Kennedy's older brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, before his 暗殺 the previous year.
Gargan 証言するd he'd 勧めるd Ted Kennedy to 報告（する）／憶測 the 衝突，墜落 to police, but the 上院議員 didn't. The に引き続いて day, Markham went with Kennedy to 供給する a 声明 to police on Martha's Vineyard.
Kennedy pleaded 有罪の to leaving the scene of an 事故 and received a 一時停止するd 宣告，判決 of two months in 刑務所，拘置所. He was never 起訴するd, but the 出来事/事件 損なうs his 遺産／遺物.
A 卒業生（する） of Villanova University and the Boston University School of 法律, Markham was 任命するd a 連邦の 検察官，検事 in 1964 by Robert F. Kennedy, who was U.S. 弁護士／代理人／検事 general at the time.
He became U.S. 弁護士／代理人／検事 for Massachusetts in 1966 at the age of 36 after his 前任者, W. Arthur Garrity Jr., was tapped to become a 連邦の 裁判官.
Markham 辞職するd in 1969 a fter 共和国の／共和党の 大統領 Richard Nixon took office. He worked as a lawyer in 私的な practice until retiring in 2004.
The longtime 居住（者） of Melrose, Massachusetts, is 生き残るd by his wife, Claire, and six children and 10 grandchildren, によれば the funeral home.
