CNN Report Looks at Sen. Ted Kennedy's Burial Site at Arlington National Cemetery - Video 8/29/09

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | August 29, 2009 | BrianinMO

[Federalist Patriot]

Here is a CNN report showing the location in Arlington National Cemetery where Sen. Ted Kennedy is being buried today. He will be buried near the graves of his two brothers, President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert Kennedy - both of whom were assassinated.

The hillside location looking out over he cemetery and toward the Lincoln Memorial is where President John Kennedy stood just shortly before his assassination and said, "I could stay here forever." . . . . . (Watch Video)

[pnh102]

What a national disgrace that this hallowed ground is defiled with the rotting corpse of that SOB.

[zwerni]

tell us what you really think...

[DuncanWaring]

He doesn’t want to get banned.

[freedumb2003]

Always good to get a guide on where to piss next time I get to DC...

[davetex]

Yup

[SkyDancer]

You should find the grave real easy - all the grass over it will have turned brown - and stay that way. Even if they put astroturf on it ... that’ll turn brown too.

[dforest]

Hey, the poor people of this country have more than paid their dues. We have had 5 days or so of Teddy Tears foisted upon us unwillingly.

Over please, bury him, move on. He really was not a national figure. Only 1 state can call him their loving mistake.

So why has he been foisted upon all of us? We survived though, their was football, baseball, monster movies with giant squids and sharks, home redecorating, bowling, we have all forgotten and we know tomorrow is another day.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Hey people we should help them with suggestions for the arrangements. Like on the Kennedy compound/museum where it looks like the taxpayers are going to get stuck with the bill. Bring in private enterprise. My idea is for a theme restaurant like “Dave and Busters” plus “Hooters.” It will have games like a full size upside down Oldsmobile swimulator. The name will be “Waitress Sammie's.” Here's their ad;

“Check out our one for two specials at “Waitress Sammie's” and by all means, bring a friend.”

I won't even charge the Kennedy Estate for this idea.

[240B]

Flipping through the channels

33% Dead Ted
33% Dead Ped. ophile
33% Other

What is this sudden obsession with death?

How he died,when he died,where, who was there,who wasn’t there and on and on and on and on

And who gives a sh*t??

[JoSixChip]

If it's not under the latrine, it’s in the wrong place.

[cubreporter]

Why did you watch it? We kept the TV off or just watched other things. That’s what the remote is for. I would never spend all my precious hours of time watching this.

[dforest]

Ah, but I didn’t watch it. I had company...but I knew it was on!

[madamemayhem]

evidently all the landfills in massachusetts are full.

[ETL]

Bio: Mary Jo Kopechne

Birth: Jul. 26, 1940
Death: Jul. 19, 1969

Teacher and Administrator, she is most remembered for her controversial death in an automobile accident with Senator Edward Kennedy; the resulting political scandal caused Kennedy to reverse his decision to run for the US Presidency. Born in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, she was the only child of insurance salesman Joseph and Gwen Kopechne. After graduating from Caldwell College, New Jersey, she taught at Montgomery Catholic High School in Montgomery, Alabama, and then moved to Washington DC to work as a secretary for Florida Senator George Smathers. Shortly afterwards, she went to work as a secretary for New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy following his election in 1964. After Senator Robert F. Kennedy's death in 1968, she moved to Matt Reese Associates, a Washington DC firm that helped politicians establish campaign headquarters, and it was there she met Senator Edward Kennedy, Robert Kennedy's younger brother.

On the evening of July 18, 1969, she attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, in honor of the "Boiler Room Girls," a name given to the six young women who had helped the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy during his presidential campaign, and who had closed up his files after his assassination in June 1968. All six of the women were single, and the six men in attendance were all married but present without their wives, and the attendees gathered for a late night party at the Lawrence Cottage, rented by Joe Gargan for the occasion.

Late that evening (the exact time is in dispute), Kennedy offered to drive Kopechne back to her hotel at the Katama Shores Motor Inn in Edgartown, and later claimed that he mistakenly took a wrong, right turn onto Dyke Road, a dirt road leading to a beach about a mile down the road, instead of turning left onto the paved Chappaquiddick Road leading to the ferryboat which they would need to use to go to Kopechne's motel.

A half-mile down Dyke Road, Kennedy drove off the side of the Dyke Bridge, and the car overturned into Poucha Pond. Kennedy got out of the overturned car, but Kopechne failed to exit the car and died. Kopechne's body was recovered later that morning; the diver reporting that Kopechne had positioned herself near the back seat wheel well where an air pocket had formed, and had apparently suffocated rather than drowned. Her parents ruled out an autopsy, so the cause of death was never officially determined.

Senator Kennedy later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, for which he received a two-month suspended sentence and one year probation. Kopechne's death and Kennedy's failure to properly deal with the accident, along with numerous discrepancies in his account of what happened, damaged his reputation and is regarded by many as the major reason that he decided to cancel his run for the presidency in 1972 and subsequent years.

Kopechne's funeral was held on July 22, 1969, at St. Vincent's Roman Catholic Church in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and she was buried in the parish cemetery there.

(bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)

Burial:
Saint Vincents Cemetery
Larksville
Luzerne County
Pennsylvania, USA

The new family tombstone, erected after the death of Mary Jo's mother in December, 2007.
Added by: Geoff Wilson, 9/04/2008

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4569

[pnh102]

tell us what you really think...

I did in other threads, but those posts were found to be disagreeable. :)

[SuziQ]

Why is he allowed to be buried in Arlington? Is it a perq of having been in the Senate? He was in the Army for less than 2 years, and never served in combat. For that matter, why is RFK buried there?

[Nosterrex]

In which branch of the service did Teddy serve?