Posted on 07/18/2013 11:43:25 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
In the early morning hours of July 19, 1969, a black Oldsmobile sedan turned down a narrow dirt road and careened away in a cloud of dust. As the car approached a wooden bridge that sat at an oblique angle to the road, it failed to slow. Too late, the driver realized his error. The car dropped over the side of the bridge, turned over and plunged into the Poucha Pond.
The driver escaped the overturned and water-filled car. A 28-year-old female passenger did not. What followed doomed the Presidential aspirations of 37-year-old Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy.
Only Kennedy knew exactly what happened in the hours following the accident. He apparently took the truth with him to the grave...
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Word has it that when they tore down that bridge old Teddy had some of it made into a “Jimmy Hat” humidor so he’d never be confronted with that particular problem any more. /s
[If it ain’t true, it oughta be.]
A seminal turning point in the moral decay of the nation.
The fact that he was not drummed out of Congress, let alone sent off to prison, set the template for where we were headed over the next four decades.
An incident which is the very picture of a corrupt politician, going unpunished by the legal system and going unpunished by the voters.
If The Walrus had died instead of the pretty girl America would not be on the brink of destruction right now.
Ted Kennedy did more lasting damage to the USA than the USSR, The Third Reicht, and Emperor Hirohito’s Japanese Empire combined.
I think she is a hero.
She gave her life to spare us another Kennedy presidency.
RIP Mary Jo
I visited the bridge in 1986. Railings had been added to prevent cars from slipping off, but there was also a chain across the entrance to block access by cars.
Only Kennedy knew exactly what happened in the hours following the accident....No. Every investigator involved knew what happened. I met some of those old guys who were alive and read the remaining paperwork that the government didn’t destroy. He was so scared of how it would look he took off knowing she would die. He could have saved her but his lawyers denied her access to help.
“An incident which is the very picture of a corrupt politician, going unpunished by the legal system and going unpunished by the voters.”
Money and influence have always played a part in this nation. At time, it was used for benevolent purposes and then there were times like the Chappquiddick incident where it was used for bad purposes.
I just wonder what the Kopechne family (among others) were paid (or threatened with) to make this all go away?
Anyone who remembers the adam sandler movie little nicky one can only hope that ted is taking the place of adolf hilter IN HELL with the insertion of a pinapple up the ol keester.
He (Teddy) probably didn’t succeed in getting it torn down until Ronnie Reagan left office.
Camelot my ass. That goes for the whole extended clan of those bastards.
Cause I’m a philanderer, Yes I’m a philanderer...
The car skids round and round and round and round....
Sort of like the Benghazi families, huh?
A&E did an investigative report show on this and the best theory is that Teddy made a move on Mary Jo, she kicked him out of the car, got lost, went off the bridge, and drowned. Teddy walked back to the cottage and told his handlers. Teddy took the ferry to the mainland and went to his hotel. One of them found the car with Mary Jo dead inside. They arrived wet at the hotel, and everyone decided it was best for Teddy to say he was driving and tried to to save Mary Jo.
The definitive book on Chappaquiddick has been written. Leo Damore got one of the insiders of the family to talk and the book “Senatorial Privilege” totally destroys Teddy.
I personally think JFK was the best one of the Kennedys and he was a snake.
Remember the lib at HuffPo who wrote that since Teddy did so much good, Mary Jo would have thought her death was “worth it”.
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