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  1. William Kennedy Smith (born September 4, 1960) is an American physician and a member of the Kennedy family who founded an organization focused on land mines and the rehabilitation of landmine victims. He is known for being charged with rape in a nationally publicized 1991 trial that ended with his acquittal.

  2. Nov 13, 2009 · Learn about the highly publicized rape trial of William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of President John F. Kennedy, who was accused of assaulting a woman in Palm Beach. Find out how the trial turned into a media circus, the jury's verdict and Smith's later career.

    • Missy Sullivan
  3. Dec 12, 1991 · After deliberating for 77 minutes, a jury acquitted William K. Smith today of charges that he raped a woman at the Kennedy family's Palm Beach estate one moonlit night last Easter weekend.

  4. It was Smith who commanded the attention, William Kennedy Smith, Willie Smith, or Will Smith, as his lawyer renamed him for the trial, the grandson of the late ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy...

  5. Aug 5, 1991 · The latest headlines erupted when prosecutor Moira Lasch disclosed that she had found three more women who would swear that William Kennedy Smith had attacked them.

    • Nancy Gibbs
  6. A summary of the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith, nephew of Senator Edward Kennedy, and his accuser Patricia Bowman in 1991. The trial was heavily covered by the media and featured cross-examinations, forensic testimony, and the involvement of the Kennedy family.

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  8. Aug 26, 2004 · William Kennedy Smith, who was acquitted more than a decade ago of sexual assault, has been sued in civil court by a former personal assistant who alleges the Kennedy cousin raped her in 1999.