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Bio: Mary Jo Kopechne
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Posted on 08/29/2009 3:09:07 PM PDT by ETL
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Interesting fact: both of her parents lived to about 90 years old. So she may well have lived a long life also.
The new family tombstone, erected after the death of Mary Jo's mother in December, 2007.
Added by: Geoff Wilson, 9/04/2008
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4569
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:12:55 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ColdWater
Johnson was a jack%$!!!!!!!!!! I hope in hell he is in an outhouse and it gets bombed over and over and Ted Kennedy get driven over that bridge by Mary Joe!!!!
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:14:29 PM PDT
by
GregB
(let me be the first to congratulate President Palin on becoming President Of The U. S.)
To: GregB
“I wonder if he made a joke about her at the Pearly Gates?”
Doubt he ever saw those gates ;0
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:14:34 PM PDT
by
Lera
To: ETL
Kennedy’s statement that he made a “wrong turn” onto Dyke Bridge road was probably the most unbelievable part of his story.
I have seen pictures of that tiny dirt road which turns off a highway. No one would ever have accidentally turned onto that road, especially someone like Kennedy who was totlly familiar with the area.
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:18:25 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: ETL
whoa, the diver interviewed on the audio link was audited three times in the year after he went public with what he knew about this.
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:19:07 PM PDT
by
Canedawg
(FUBO)
To: ETL
Kopechne's death and Kennedy's failure to properly deal with the accident, along with numerous discrepancies in his account of what happened, damaged his reputation and is regarded by many as the major reason that he decided to cancel his run for the presidency in 1972 and subsequent years. Except that Kennedy did run in 1980 and thought about running again afterwards (see the KGB memo in 1983).
I'll never forget the lead up to Ted entering the race. All summer of 1980, the media ran polls showing Kennedy more popular than President Carter and literally insisted that he run. They were orgasmic when Kennedy decided to run.
Then Kennedy did an interview with Roger Mudd on "60 Minutes" where Mudd asked simply "Why do you want to be president?" It was a typical liberal softball question but Teddy fumbled his way through it so badly that the American public must have had a collective gasp. Heck, even "that Reagan" *knew* why he wanted to be president!
Then various media started re-examining Chappaquiddick and the more they tried to cover it (or spin it), the worse it looked for Teddy's campaign. Carter might be incompetant but at least he wasn't a murderer.
I think the party apparatus decided it would be fatal to try to replace a sitting president of their own party and rallied back around Carter who then lost to Reagan.
Yes, I think Chappaquiddick played a role but I also think Teddy was simply too liberal for even his own party to stomach outside the Northeast and the West Coast. Remember, not only was he never president, he was also never the party's nominee for president.
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:22:10 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(YES WE CAN have a Depression.)
To: ETL
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:23:07 PM PDT
by
RightFighter
(Sarah Palin - we love you and can't wait to see you again.)
To: svcw
"What does that even mean? "
I was in radio at the time and I remember reading news stories about rumors that Mary Jo was pregnant, and of course kennedy was implicated as the father. However, as I remember it was a hurried funeral and no autopsy ever proved it one way or the other.
Another assumption was that kennedy was a well-known boozer and he was driving drunk, and needed time to "sober up" before contacting the police...so he claimed the "in shock" story.
it was a mess
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:24:11 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(We are only enslaved to the extent of charity we receive....INCUMBENTS OUT!!!)
To: Albion Wilde
Whoa....I heard the water was shallow but had no idea. Ted must have really been in 'shock' not to help Mary Jo. /s
What a POS.
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:25:09 PM PDT
by
Electric Graffiti
(Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
To: ETL
To: OrangeHoof
where Mudd asked simply "Why do you want to be president?" He might have had an answer to this if he had ever been to a job interview.
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:31:19 PM PDT
by
DejaJude
(asa)
To: ETL
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:36:02 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: yarddog
You're right about no one would take that wrong turn. I've been to Chappaquiddick a few times. No way.
Sad thing is, the bridge is concrete now. Too many tourists stopped to chip a 'souvenier' off the old wooden bridge. Jeeze....
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:37:32 PM PDT
by
joy361
To: FrankR
I remember it well.
There was so much animosity against her parents for not having an autopsy and taking the Kennedy money. Of course that was viewed as a pay off (which it was).
I am sure she was pregnant, otherwise there would have been an autopsy.
The Kennedys were/are scum, from Joe Sr. to now.
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posted on
08/29/2009 4:40:06 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Legalism reinforces self-righteousness - it communicates to you the good news of your own goodness)
To: svcw
There was an excellent documentary of Chappaquiddick some years back. One of the people interviewed was the former police chief at the time of the accident. The police chief investigated the accident. He said that an officer on patrol had radioed in that there was a car parked in a darkened area. The chief said that he believed that Kennedy got nervous when the police car went by, then exited the car leaving MaryJo to drive off to her hotel while he was going to walk back to the cottage where the party was going on. He said that he did not believe that Kennedy was in the car when it drove off the bridge.
Another revealing piece of information from this documentary was an interview with neighbors who lived near the bridge. I also saw a photo from the bridge which showed several houses only a short walking distance from the bridge. The neighbors said that they had been home that night but that they heard nothing and no one knocked on their doors or rang their bells. So Kennedy could have very easily run to one of these houses and rang their doorbell. Isn't that what any normal human being would do?
When you see someone in peril and you cannot help them, do you not seek help?
When there is a life or death situation, minutes count. If he had gone to the neighbors and called for the police, they might have arrived there with the proper equipment to save her life. Instead he did everything possible to avoid calling the police? Why?
Mary Jo did not drown, instead she died of asphyxia. Her head was in an air bubble so there was some time for her to have been rescued, if Kennedy had called the police right away. We will never know if she could have been saved, but it is apparent that she was not given every opportunity possible to save her life.
To: Kimberly GG; ETL
I mentioned Mary Jo to my 27 and 30 year old sons. They were completely clueless. Never knew about what Kennedy did. I just assumed they did...I was shocked. Did you really expect them to learn about that in government skewls? They should watch this 12 minute video to see what a self-serving SOB he was.
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posted on
08/29/2009 5:09:15 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(I wonder why Solomon Ortiz (TX-27) is so afraid of talking with his constituents?)
To: ETL; glock rocks
Did you link to the correct youtube video?I think it was a perfect choice.
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posted on
08/29/2009 5:09:15 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(If you have a problem and If explosives are an option then explosives are THE answer.)
To: svcw
I am sure she was pregnant, otherwise there would have been an autopsy. Also an autopsy would have revealed if she had died by drowning or lack of air. As someone earlier observed, the car apparently was in fairly shallow water and the diver stated that her body was positioned where an air pocket had developed. And if it was by lack of air, then she was alive for a longer period of time, giving Teddy plenty of time to at least attempt a relatively safe and easy shallow water rescue.
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posted on
08/29/2009 5:13:24 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: True Republican Patriot
I don’t think it was MURDER, and thus intentional. I’d say it was more criminally negligent homocide. Still, he DID get off WAY to easy!
To: ETL
Even with the air pocket, after breathing for awhile, most of it would become carbon dioxide, hence the asphyxiation.
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