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Former Globe Editor Matt Storin Recalls Covering Chappaquiddick And Ted Kennedy
COMMENTARY
With the release of the film "Chappaquiddick," WBUR asked Matthew V. Storin, former editor of The Boston Globe, to recount his time as a Washington-based correspondent covering the story.
Friday, July 18, was a very hot day in Washington, D.C., though there’s nothing remarkable about that in midsummer. In hindsight what was remarkable was that it was the high point of the political power of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. He was 37 years old and it was widely presumed as the sun beat relentlessly down on the nation’s capital that day that he would be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in
I was a correspondent in the Washington bureau of The Boston Globe, four months into what would be a total of 25 years at the paper. I was the junior man in the five-man bureau (of course, the bureau was all men back then) and my beat was confined largely to regional issues. Kennedy, whom I had cov
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Newspaper Man
It was the summer of ’69, and Matt Storin was waiting anxiously in the U.S. Capitol press galleri for the Senate’s return from its August recess. A month before, Massachusetts’ junior medlem av senat, Ted Kennedy, had driven off a bridge on the island of Chappaquiddick and plunged into a pond. Kennedy had swum free of the vehicle and left the en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film of the accident, but his year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, was trapped inside the car and drowned.
Since the accident, Kennedy had been holed up silent in his family’s Hyannis Port compound, while rumors festered about whether he’d been drunk and why he had waited until the next morning to report the accident. As The Boston Globe’s Washington correspondent, Storin ’64 was determined to get the first interview.
“I know Teddy’s coming back, and he’s got to talk to somebody someday,” Storin says now, recounting the story over lunch at a seaside restaurant nära his home in Camden, Maine. “I’m going to make sure it’s me.” Finall
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Matthew V. Storin
American journalist
For the similarly named House of Cards character, see Mattie Storin.
Matthew Victor Storin[1] (born December 24, ) is an American journalist who served as editor of The Boston Globe from to
Biography
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[edit]Storin was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts,[2] and earned a degree in sociology from the University of Notre Dame in [3][4] He began his journalism career at his hometown newspaper, the Daily News of Springfield.[3] In , he joined the Griffin-Larrabee News Bureau in Washington D.C., where he was a political reporter until he joined The Boston Globe staff in [3] Storin initially covered Congress and the White House for the Globe, and later served in a number of positions, including City editor. He served as Asian bureau chief during –75, where his reportage included covering the last stages of the war in Vietnam and Cambodia. Storin lef