[montag813]

Well, the truth would have come out if YOUR FAMILY had told it!!! What the hell were you waiting for? Stormy Daniels is all over the place hammering Trump, and this family couldn’t reveal the truth while the fat scumbag Kennedy was still alive?

[laplata]

Well, the truth would have come out if YOUR FAMILY had told it!!!

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Her parents, who are dead now, were probably threatened.

[SkyDancer]

PS: Make that 1.6 million.

[ghostkatz]

look up “ Ballad of Mary Jo who ?” on Youtube. Sorry I dont have link.

[hinckley buzzard]

I believe their silence was bought for a huge amount of money. It always seemed suspicous to me that the family just slipped away from the public eye, never to be heard from again. Sort of like the several dozen survivors of Benghazi. Never heard from a single one of them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Amen, Brother! The country was subjected to FOUR MORE DECADES of Kennedy-inflicted damage because they did not tell the truth when it mattered.

Took the payoff and let a corrupt Catholic Church talk them into shutting-up.

[stanne]

Have you been living under a rock?

[Red Badger]

Joe Kennedy had bought and paid for the entire local and state police force. It must have cost him a lot of dough...............

[JimRed]

Well, the truth would have come out if YOUR FAMILY had told it!!!

Which was it, a big payoff with a non-disclosure agreement, or a "nice rest of the family you've got there...it would be a shame if something happened to them"?

[Chewbarkah]

“Well, the truth would have come out if YOUR FAMILY had told it!!!”

Perhaps, but the news media was even more controlled then than now, and they were 100% Kennedy worshippers. The police and prosecutors knew Teddy was drunk and murdered the pregnant girlfriend, at minimum via vehicular homicide (more likely by looking after his skin instead of rescuing her when he could have), then engaged in a cover-up that law enforcement was 100% in on. The daughter was dead. Her family could either sell out, or expect the Kennedys, media, local law enforcement, the judicial system, Church, State, etc. to drag Mary Jo Kopechne through the mud and destroy them. (Predictable storyline: “Slut drowns self to cover up pregnancy by retarded negro; tries to murder Teddy in mafia vendetta to soil the sacred memory of John and Bobby; family blackmails Kennedys; another Kennedy tragedy”). I’m not justifying their decisions, which seem loathsome on the surface, but it was not a black and white choice. Any truth they told would have been obliterated. (And maybe it was...).

[Scrambler Bob]

B-1 Bob Dornan would get quite angry over the cover up.

He said some high level Catholic officials visited the Kopechne family right after her death, and silenced them.

[mass55th]

Didn’t her parents refuse to allow an autopsy?

[nutmeg]

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