Ted Kennedy was untouchable.
The democrats have some nerve finger pointing at alleged moral wrongdoing by republicans in light of him, Bill the rapist Clinton, and Joe shower with his 12 year old daughter biden, just to name a few.
B🪦den pal. “Loyalist”
They already killed 2 Kennedys, this was just a reminder to ol Teddy to stay a senator and not try for the gold ring.
He got drunk
He drove off the bridge
He left her to drown, sentenced her to death
His family covered for him
That’s it.
The best explanation I have seen for this is that Mary Jo kicked Kennedy out of the car when he made a pass at her, and drove off the bridge herself, alone. Kennedy went back to the party and got taken to town without knowing what happened to her. They decided that it was best if he made up the story about him driving off the bridge.
This is what tge news is going to be like for at least a while. This is not a story. Not a topic of discussion not a mystery
They have no candidate Trump to hate on. No Trump crimes. No Trump family dirt. Nothing
Some half assed gossip about how Trump thought of desantis spelled wrong.
When the bad guys start getting orange jumpsuits the news will be so starved it will have no choice but to cover it.
Reminds me of a bumper sticker a family member had at that time: “More people died in Ted Kennedy’s car than in nuclear power plants.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8tkYxWxyGI
SNL didn’t let this go and on their Weekend Update segment they went with;
Downhill skier Susy Chaffee is going to marry Teddy Kennedy and change her name to Suzy Chappaquiddick.
What really happened at Chappaquiddick?
America’s Untold Stories with Mark Groubert and Eric Hunley . Well done.
Archive from ~15 years ago of ytedk.com, an old school site that had a ton of material on the event. Oft-linked at FR in the early days when the subject came up.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080515064750/http://www.ytedk.com/
There’s no questions left unanswered. He was drunk, crashed the car and waited 10hrs to report it.
It was a massive cover up that failed but he was never charged and should have been.
The Apollo 11 moon landing 2 days later saved Ted Kennedy’s political career. Took Chappaquiddick off the front page.
Eventually, Kennedy and Rosemary "Crickett" Keough got into the Olds and set out for a visit to the beach across the famous bridge. Kennedy was at the wheel and Rosemary in the passenger seat. In the dark, they did not realize that Mary Jo was sound asleep on the back seat.
Heading toward the beach, Kennedy noticed a local patrol car and feared a DUI check that he would fail. He pulled over and slipped out of the car and into the tangle of roadside bushes. Rosemary Keough slid over behind the wheel and, following Kennedy's hasty directions, drove off toward the bridge to the beach.
Ironically, the cop in the patrol car did not pursue and, as one of the few Democrats in the local police force, he was even a Kennedy fan. Had the cop come upon the inebriated Kennedy behind the wheel of his Olds, he would have almost certainly asked for an autograph and then gotten Kennedy and Keogh (and Kopechne) safely back to the party cottage.
As it was, in utter darkness and unfamiliar with the sharp turn and downward slope toward the narrow bridge, Rosemary was going too fast and drove off the bridge into the water. She escaped, but, unaware, left Mary Jo Kopechne behind to drown.
Meanwhile, Kennedy got tired of waiting for Rosemary to return and walked back to the cottage. Kennedy, his cousin Joe Gargan, and close friend Paul Markham collaborated and assumed that Rosemary had an accident, gotten lost, or maybe had fallen asleep. They got Teddy off the island via a small boat, back to his hotel room in Edgartown and away from the scene of potential trouble.
Early the next morning, local fishermen saw the car in the water and reported it to the authorities. Soon, Gargan and Markham learned of this and met with Kennedy. The initial plan was for Gargan to take responsibility for a simple one car accident. Then Kopechne's body was found and Kennedy was stuck with responsibility.
Although loyal, Gargan was not going to incriminate himself in a death. Nor could Rosemary Keogh be thrust into the spotlight as the person responsible. Under questioning, she would soon spill the truth about Kennedy's dodgy conduct and drunken driving. The obvious nature of the party on Chappaquiddick as a no-wives-present good time with young, attractive, and willing single women would also have been put on record.
That put Ted Kennedy on the hook, with a story that evolved into five different versions -- none of which quite make sense. The local police chief was certain of one thing: there was no way that Kennedy could have been in the car because he had no injuries. And Rosemary's purse was found in Kennedy's car -- but not Mary Jo's.
It's too bad this standard is no longer being applied to resident Biden.
***Senator Edward Kennedy seemed poised to seize the Democratic nomination for president from incumbent Jimmy Carter.****
I remember that! I also received in the mail a book exposing Kennedy and his wreck, the lies he told.
I’m a philanderer
Yes, a philanderer
The car spins round and round and round and round and round...
RIP Rush