Best 1991 Palm Beach FLORIDA newspaper - a 30-year old woman WOMAN claims she was RAPED at by WILLIAM KENNEDY SMITH at the KENNEDY FAMILY COMPOUND in Palm Beach, FLORIDA -  inv # 7A-304

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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Palm Beach Daily News (FL) dated April 2, 1991.  This newspaper contains a prominent front page headline that reads: "Rape Reported at Kennedy Compound" (in Palm Beach, FL).

BEST LOCAL display newspaper with coverage of the initial accusation of RAPE against WILLIAM KENNEDY SMITH at the Palm Beach, FLORIDA Kennedy compound. 

William Kennedy Smith (born September 4, 1960) is an American physician whose work focuses on landmines and the rehabilitation of landmine victims. He is a member of the prominent Kennedy family and is famous for a well-publicized 1991 rape trial in which he was acquitted.

William Kennedy Smith is the second of four children of Stephen Edward Smith and Jean Kennedy Smith. His mother is the youngest daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. He is a nephew of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy.

In 1991, Smith was tried and acquitted on a charge of rape, represented by Miami-based criminal defense attorney Roy Black in a trial that attracted extensive media coverage.

The incident began on the evening of Good Friday, March 29, 1991, when Smith, then 30 years old, was in a bar (named Au Bar) in Palm Beach, Florida, with his uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, and his cousin Patrick J. Kennedy. Smith met Patricia Bowman, a 29-year-old woman and another young woman at the bar. The five then went to a nearby house owned by the Kennedy family. Smith and the 29-year-old woman walked along the beach. The woman alleged that Smith raped her; Smith testified that they had consensual sex. Although three women were willing to testify that Smith had sexually assaulted them in incidents in the 1980s that were not reported to the police, their testimony was excluded. Smith was acquitted of all charges.

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