Yes. I feel sympathy for nearly all wives of the Kennedy clan.
Can you imagine being married to that fat, disgusting, self-absorbed pig?
I read a book years ago called “Senatorial Privilege”, and it was a thick tome that, front to back, covered every angle of the Chappaquiddick incident.
What a cowardly, disgusting, slime ball of a male. Getting drunk and driving off the bridge is bad. Leaving her in the car to suffocate and drown is worse. But then, his lying about it to try to save his political skin was nauseating.
At one point, as they discussed the issue during that time frame before he jumped in the water and went back to his hotel, he suggested that they say she was driving, not him.
In all of this, I did find respect for Joe Gargan, the guy the Kennedy Clan had “adopted” to be Ted’s watchdog, look out for him, and clean up after his messes. Gargan wouldn’t go along with any of it, and kept insisting that Kennedy go immediately to the police, which Kennedy said he would do, but never did until the next day.
Gargan found out fully just who the Kennedys really were in that incident. He became a non-person to them.
Interestingly, I wanted to buy an audiobook version of “Senatorial Privilege”, but could never find it. I eventually discovered that the name of the book had been changed from “Senatorial Privilege” to “Chappaquiddick: Power, Privilege, and the Ted Kennedy Cover-Up”.
Apparently, the original publisher, Random House, backed out of the contract with Leo D’Amore (the author) after only a short publishing interval for “unknown reasons” and he had to have the book re-printed with someone else under a different title at some later point.
If you have never read this book, I highly recommend it. Very well written, and nearly impossible to put down.
On a related note: I recently purchased a stellar documentary “Apollo 11” which has a boatload of 70mm film footage I had never seen, crystal clear. Just awesome. But in it, there is an interval where someone is talking to another person conversationally about the Chappaquiddick Incident, which hit the papers the same day as the moon landing.
I will be looking for that used book.
Sounds interesting without being overly speculative.
JOHN EDGINTON DOCUMENTARIES channel on Youtube has a couple of very good videos on the Chappaquiddick incident.