Posted on 07/18/2017 6:48:56 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours. ---SNIP--- Kennedy escaped the car and then dove down in an attempt to retrieve Kopechne from the sunken Oldsmobile. Failing, he stumbled back to the cottage, where he enlisted Gargan and another friend in a second attempt to save Kopechne. The three men were unsuccessful; her body was not recovered. The trio then went to the ferry slip, where Kennedy dove into the water and swam back to Edgartown, about a mile away.
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I have that book in my bookshelf, and have read it 2 or 3 times. IIRC, the key was the delay so that TedK could sober up. Had he been over the legal limit when he talked to the cops, the rap automatically would have been manslaughter, or some such. That’s why they got rid of all the liquor bottles at the house.
Ah, when murderous scandals could bring down a politician.... Oh wait, they didn’t then either.
Exactly. It shows him in a documented, factual, and if you can believe it, a non-judgmental way (just the facts) it is still embarrassing that he served as long as he did...
Doubly embarrassing that he was fully and whole-heartedly embraced by the left as the “Lion of The Senate” (gag)...
That he was lionized by the left and the media when he finally died...
And that we buried him in Arlington National Cemetery with hundreds of thousands of other patriots.
Hope his time in Hell is warm enough.
Yep...”Get all that stuff out of here”
I had heard that as well.
Grrr...he is dead and gone, and his arrogance and liberal stupidity continues to anger and amaze me to this day.
Never...never get into any type of conveyance with a Kennedy.
I don’t think she was pregnant. I doubt she had ever been with him until that night. They were probably on their way to their first tryst.
1972 instead of McGovern, and he might have won.
bfl
Agreed. He probably did try at first to get her out. But when it was difficult he thought of #1 (his political career) FIRST and got the hell out of there and began covering up. He had hours to save her but while she was slowly running out of air, he was on the horn with his lawyers and hangers on. He could have brought help.
Good book. The truth is so horrific and telling re his character that no conspiracy needed.
“That he was lionized by the left and the media when he finally died...”
I recall some in the press were surprised there weren’t many people lining the street during the funeral procession.
Thanks for the link :-)
It’s an island——he could NOT walk back to his hotel.
The problem with these books is that they all have to rely on Kennedy loyalists for witnesses. They best they can do is point out contradictions and curious omissions in the Kennedy story. (E.g. no one saw him wet after he supposedly swam the channel to Edgartown. I'm not sure whether anyone at the house even claimed to have seen him wet after he supposedly drove off the bridge.)
ML/NJ
“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) “
Not so.
The book IS available in MA————Minuteman has about 1/2 dozen copies-—and Minuteman is a large network
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Time to start planning for the 50th.
It certainly calls for a news-worthy event. Maybe an Oldsmobile parade, marchers with swim fins, a marching band with big red noses, all led by a convertible with Chrissy and Ted look-alikes sitting above the backseat with a buxom blonde dressed in a waitress costume, “sandwiched” in between.
swim fins AND back braces
You left off 8) pay off the family
I never saw that as a problem...when he got to the other side of the channel, he no doubt made his way back to his motel room in a the most surreptitious way possible where he wouldn’t be seen by anyone else. It isn’t hard to imagine that POS, now sobering up a bit, skulking behind bushes, peering out to see who is around, darting up the stairs to his room, etc. Cowardly a-hole.
IIRC, it was around 02:30 AM when he hit his room, and we all know that even in the hardest core of partying places, even during the summer, most everyone is crashed by that time, so I never even gave that a second thought.
There is black area where nobody knows for certain what went on, but they have a very good idea based on circumstances when the vehicle went into the water, and when he made a complaint to the hotel manager about being awakened by noise at 02:55 AM (ostensibly to provide “cover” and establish that he was at the the motel sleeping)
Even if the Kennedy loyalists tried to shape things, they couldn’t, and likely wouldn’t, knowing full well how even an inexperienced detective would smell the BS.
From the time the cop saw the car at around 12:45 AM at the latest, to the time Kennedy complained to the motel manager at 02:55 AM, those are two pins at the end of a piece of string and the crash, Kennedy dive attempts, pass out on beach, Kennedy going back up the road to the house, discussions taking place, trip back, more dives into the water, Kennedy swim across the channel and stagger to the hotel, clothes change and complaint...it all kind of fits in there. And Miss Kopechne died somewhere in that time frame.
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