Liberal Lion in Winter

The American Spectator : Liberal Lion in Winter:

Forty years ago today, the world fixated upon Apollo 11's lunar landing. But in Massachusetts, an incident highlighting humanity's depths rather than its heights relegated one of the biggest stories of the 20th century to below the fold. 'Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the only surviving brother in a family pursued by tragedy, narrowly escaped death early yesterday when his car plunged into a pond on a sparsely populated island off the coast of Martha's Vinyard,' read the lede in the July 20, 1969 Boston Globe."