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- ↑ Who's who at the Kennedy inquest - time.com, September 5, 1969
- ↑ Wheaton College Honorary Degree Citations - Esther Newberg '63 Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Mary Jo Kopechne - UPI.com
- ↑ New York Times, July 17, 2009
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