Sept. 4, 1975

Dear Diary, Today was the 1st day of school. I have all my opens [free school periods] with Peter & Christy. Tonight I went pool hopping w/Jackie, Michael, David & Tom Skakel and Andy Pugh. When I got home my mom was really ticked at me. She might not let me go to the Allman Brothers concert with Peter which he asked me to go to today. She was being such a bitch. A royal bitch. She knows that I really want to go.
   

 

 

 

    
    Teenager Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club in 1975, but it took almost 27 years before her neighbor, Michael Skakel, would be convicted of her murder. Skakel is the nephew of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.    
   
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