The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President: Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy by Geoff Shepard (New York: Little, Brown, 2014)
Posted on 07/18/2017 6:48:56 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
“This tragedy”
It wasn’t a tragedy, it was a crime.
The press treated it like the Lincoln assassination.
“Other than that Mr. Kennedy, did you enjoy the party?”
Mary Jo was a hero. Her family, not so much.
They could have driven the nails into the coffin of the Kennedy Dynasty, but chose to cash the check instead.
VW or any other corporation wouldn’t be able to run an ad like that today. The deep state would bring too much pressure.
In 1970, with Chappaquiddick fresh in the minds of voters, the Republicans had their one chance to knock Ted Kennedy out. But they nominated as their candidate Josiah Spaulding, a liberal whose views on the issues were almost identical with Kennedy's--and he lost, as "me, too" Republicans, who offer an echo, not a choice, usually do.
Dead red Tes Kennedy was so grief stricken that he continued telling inappropriate Mary Jo jokes long afterwards.
That nugget didn’t surface from journalists until after he died.
I think the sequence of events is simple: 1)Go to party with young women 2)Drive to secluded beach to fool around with young woman 3)Drive drunk butt off bridge 4)Go tell lawyer friends and swim off the island 5)simultaneously hope nobody finds the car, build an alibi, and make a few dozen phone calls to friends, lawyers, and fixers 6)the next day, discover the jig is up and admit to driving the car 7)bribe judges and prosecutors
Who’s the artist? Joe Orlando? Doesn’t look like Neal Adams. Nat Lamp was good
In 1964, Salinger ran for US Senate in California against former actor George Murphy, the Republican nominee. One of the few bright spots in that otherwise disastrous election year was Murphy's resounding victory over Salinger in November.
TED KENNEDY'S CAR HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN MY GUN
The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President: Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy by Geoff Shepard (New York: Little, Brown, 2014)
The real truth is damning enough, researched and written by someone who knew the people, the area, and the politics, and most importantly, was there in the location at the time.
Leo Damore was working for The Cape Cod News in July 1969 when Mary Jo Kopechne died at Chappaquidick. He began investigating the role played by Edward Kennedy in her death. He obtained a contract and a large advance from Random House to write a book about Chappaquidick. However, as a result of pressure from the Kennedy family, the contract was cancelled.
He finally ended up getting it published in 1983.
We don't have to make things up. The book tells it in a pretty unadorned, highly investigated, and factual way, and the shame it brings on Ted Kennedy via his cowardice shines clearly through.
Living up here in Massachusetts, the book has pretty much been scrubbed from the library networks and cannot be found anymore in the large library networks (fancy that) but I have no doubt library networks in the rest of the country still have it. I suggest reading it. If you didn't have enough contempt for him before (how could anyone who posts on FR NOT have enough?) then you certainly will after reading it. It is an EXTREMELY well researched and documented book, and very readable.
Disgusting that scumbag was buried in Arlington.
Not sure, but I do know that the page hung in the shop at work for several years......right next to our “@$$hole of the Month” bulletin board. Ted made that place of honor several times as well.
Typical of the Republican party.
It bothers me to no end every time I visit my father’s grave...I sure do want to pour a bottle of whiskey on Ted Kennedy’s grave...after passing it over my kidneys, first.
His conduct in making overtures to the Soviet Union back in the early Eighties is shameful enough on its own...never mind leaving that woman to suffocate and drown, as she did.
Fat boy Kennedy was lucky that the Chappaquidick news was drowned out, pun intended, by the Apollo moon landing that was happening at the same time, July 1969.
Anyone harboring a lingering doubt about the evil nature of Edward M. Kennedy should read “Senatorial Privilege”.
That the Swimmer fouled this Earth for twenty more years after the book was published does not date nor diminish it in any way.
If you think that that is bad, ask yourself why police officers involved in any shooting get 3 days to week before being allowed to be questioned?
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