Cape Cod History

1915: Bay State women lose the vote; 1962: JFK votes, watches the election on Cape Cod. 2006: Dennisport deaths were murder-suicide

2006: Deaths of mother and child in motel were murder-suicide

"It was a murder-suicide.
That's it.
We don't say anything more in these cases nor do we identify the people."
                                 - DA O'Keefe.

The investigation into the deaths of a Rhode Island mother and her 4-year-old daughter was closed today.  Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said Wednesday morning, "It was a murder-suicide. That's it. We don't say anything more in these cases nor do we identify the people."

The woman and her daughter checked into Glendon Beach Cottage 97 in Dennisport on Saturday. At 1:30 Monday afternoon, Dennis Police Officer Dave Tinelli responded to a call from the cottage's owner, Richard Cravenho, who requested a well-being check on the renter, who had not been seen, and whose car had not been moved, since check-in.

"The owner told Officer Tinelli he was concerned about the occupants of the cottage," Dennis Police Capt. Bill Monahan said Tuesday. "He led Officer Tinelli into the cottage, and they made the discovery [of two bodies]." Tinelli then called for assistance and checked the sign-in log to verify information about the dead woman and child."

1915: Female "Anti's" block a women's right to vote in Massachusetts

On this day in 1915, a referendum to give Massachusetts women the vote failed at the polls. In spite of its leading role in the nineteenth-century woman's rights movement, Massachusetts was the first state to organize an association of women opposed to suffrage.

Known as the "Anti's," these women believed that they could be better, more effective citizens without the ballot. Many of the "Anti's" were active in Progressive era causes; they feared that involvement in electoral politics would erode their influence. For over 30 years, they and their male allies succeeded in keeping Massachusetts women out of the voting booth. But ultimately they lost the fight. On this same day in 1920, Massachusetts women cast their votes in a federal election for the first time. Source.

1962:The last vote John F. Kennedy lived to cast

In the midterm election in November of 1962, President Kennedy was to cast his final vote because nine moths later he was dead from an assassin's bullets in Dallas.

As was the President's custom, he voted in Boston and then came to the Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport with his family to watch the results... for the last time. Read the newspaper reports of that day below.

Kennedy Casts Ballot in Boston
And Passes the Day on Cape Cod; President Gets Returns

President Kennedy followed today his own exhortation to the nation's voters. He voted in the midterm elections. Moreover, he accomplished it quickly.... read the rest below.
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