Nakedly-influential women washed their hands on December 10, 1968 when Thomas Merton was electrocuted by a fan as he stepped out of his bath tub; and on July 18, 1969 when Edward Moore Kennedy was framed by the Control Group in the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne; and on September 9, 1969 as American Episcopalian Bishop James Albert Pike fell 60 feet to his death in the Judean Desert.