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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.
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
Nov 13, 2009 · Smith, then a 30-year-old medical student at Georgetown University, was accused of sexually assaulting a 29-year-old Florida woman in the early hours of March 30, 1991, at the Kennedy family’s...
- Missy Sullivan
Dec 29, 2014 · William Kennedy Smith hopes to put past behind him As a younger man, he was the defendant in a rape trial that ended in his acquittal. Now he has been elected to Washington, D.C., advisory...
Dr. William Kennedy Smith’s rape trial so enthralled the country that the news of his acquittal was even flashed on the message screen at Hollywood Park racetrack, for those engaged in...
Jul 11, 2023 · The William Kennedy Smith rape accusations. In 1991, a lesser-known Kennedy — William Kennedy Smith (the nephew of John F. Kennedy) — was accused of raping a woman at the Kennedy family compound in Palm Beach Florida.
Jul 23, 1991 · William Kennedy Smith, nephew of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), committed a rape in Washington in 1988 and attempted two others here and in New York, the prosecutor in a Florida rape...
