Is this a suspicious death?Ĭouncil for National Policy (CNP) - Pe-Q - Member Biographies Davison said, he was almost finished with another Kennedy book, about the President's affair with Mary Pinchot Meyer. Damore's other works include "The Cape Cod Years of John Fitzgerald Kennedy," published in 1967. Regnery Gateway, a small, conservative house, brought the book out the next year, and although it received few reviews, it immediately became a big seller. After a judge ruled against him, he reached a settlement with Random House and sought another publisher. Damore, arguing that the book was sound and that the publisher was bowing to the Kennedy family, went to court. Random House, which gave him a $150,000 advance in 1982, rejected his manuscript in 1987, describing it as libelous and demanding the return of the advance. Random House refused to publish, became best seller anyway Damore, who had a reputation as a dogged, thorough investigator, obtaining the interviews was easier than having the book published. Damore, who knew many of the local law enforcement officials, managed to persuade several figures to give extensive interviews for the first time. The incident, which is widely believed to have ended any possibility that Senator Kennedy might be elected president, has been repeatedly investigated by the national press. Kennedy's Oldsmobile plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, killing Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old Senate aide who had been attending a party with the Senator and other staff members nearby. Damore was working for a weekly newspaper, The Cape Cod News, in July 1969 when Senator Edward M. Damore had been despondent over their divorce last December.
Damore, who uncovered previously unreported information for his 1988 book, "Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Coverup," had taken his own life on Monday at his home in Essex, Conn. On this day in 1995 it was reported in the New York Times that Leo J. Damore, 66, author of a book on ChappaquiddickĪlso wrote "The Cape Cod Years of John Fitzgerald Kennedy" October 4, 1995: Leo Damore commits suicide Seven years later he shot himself as another book of his about President Kennedy was nearly finished. The author, Leo Damore, wrote a bestselling book called Senatorial Privelige about Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick.
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