Posted on 07/28/2015 8:29:12 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a two part series examining the life, and death, of Forty Fort native Mary Jo Kopechne. Part 1 was published Sunday, July 19.
Today, July 26, would have been the 75th birthday of Mary Jo Kopechne, the 28-year-old Wyoming Valley native who was killed when a car driven by U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in July, 1969.
Such a milestone offers a rare opportunity to remember an attractive, bright young woman who had a very promising future in politics and one who was extremely committed to the best ideals of the 1960s.
(Excerpt) Read more at citizensvoice.com ...
Poor Ted - he was just trying to go for midnight (m)ass.
but not necessarily with Mary Jo. There’s a strong argument that she was sleeping in the back seat and he, and another person in the front seat, didn’t even know she was there.
Ted’s lies don’t fly anymore.
The last paragraph of the article is tripe.
Mary Jo had no comment.
God bless Mary Jo...
Ted got what he deserved. You reap what you sow.
the purse found in the car belonged to one of the other girls at the party, not to Mary Jo. A patrolman who saw the car earlier in the evening thought he saw three people — one in the back seat.
google, “Kennedy’s second passenger” - a book that lays out the thesis.
I remember Mary Jo’s father saying she didn’t die in vain because she kept Ted Kennedy out of the White House.
At least her father could take solace in that.
I think Ted didn't give a fig for those characteristics, but was more interested in what she could be induced to do when she was schnockered.
Some items of interest:
MSM reports at the time said TK came to intersection of Chappaquiddick Road and Dyke Road and mistakenly made a left rather than right turn (which was to take him over the fatal bridge to lonely beach for a hoped-for quickie.)
BS. Left turn to town is a banked paved road. Right turn is up over the embankment onto a small dirt road. There was no mistake. (Check it out on Google Earth.)
TK claimed he swam across harbor to get help.
BS Tides were known, as they always are and were very much against any cross-harbor swim. LIFE magazine hired 6 members of the Harvard swimming team to try to swim across harbor when tides were the same. Most got 1/3 of way across. One made it 2/3 of way, and he was not a drunk, fat, out of shape Kennedy!
In reality, bag man took $250,000 to her family the next afternoon and promised $100,000 more each year. (Gasoline was 39 cents a gallon then.) Told family nothing will bring Mary Jo back... but this will help... if you remain silent...
In last years of his Senate career, he and Joe Biden would get rolling drunk at the Monocle Bar on Capitol Hill every night. Watched them do it many times.
He was scum.
I don’t like Ted, but I’ve come to believe the theory that he - and a female companion - didn’t know that a drunken Mary Jo had left the party and climbed into his car to sleep. When Ted later drove the car away and crashed it, he and the woman he was with exited the car without even knowing Mary Jo was in the back seat. The cops found a purse in the car, but it belonged to another girl at the party, not to Mary Jo. And they found Mary Jo in the back seat.
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum (“Of the dead, nothing unless good.”)
The Ode to Mary Jo.
Never heard that one before.
Why didn’t Ted just say that at the time?
this woman has a pretty credible explanation:
“We can’t find Mary Jo,” by Mary Wentworth
http://www.opednews.com/articles/-We-Can-t-Find-Mary-Jo-—by-Mary-Wentworth-090519-344.html
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