Posted on 07/18/2024 2:54:53 PM PDT by DFG
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.
On the evening of July 18, 1969, while most Americans were home watching television reports on the progress of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, Kennedy and his cousin Joe Gargan were hosting a cookout and party at a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick Island, an affluent island near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The party was planned as a reunion for Kopechne and five other women, all veterans of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign. Bobby Kennedy was Ted Kennedy’s older brother, and following Bobby’s assassination in June 1968 Ted took up his family’s political torch. In 1969, Ted Kennedy was elected majority whip in the U.S. Senate, and he seemed an early front-runner for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.
Just after 11 p.m., according to Kennedy, he left the party with Kopechne to drive to the ferry slip where they would catch a boat back to their respective lodgings in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard. While driving down the main roadway, Kennedy took a sharp turn onto the unpaved Dike Road, drove for a short distance, and then missed the ramp to a narrow wooden bridge and drove into Poucha Pond. Kennedy, a married man, claimed the Dike Road excursion was a wrong turn.
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The Apollo 11 moon landing took this story off the front page and saved Ted Kennedy's political career.
Still the best parody ad ever done.
Just like 9/11 took Gary Condit and Chandra Levy off the front page.
Seen the vw add a 100 times, Was that a real add? or just an internet creation that wont die?
Seen the vw add a 100 times, Was that a real add? or just an internet creation that wont die?
Seen the vw add a 100 times, Was that a real add? or just an internet creation that wont die?
It was published in the National Lampoon years ago.
He got over Mary Jo by 1985, when Teddy and Chrissy Dodd made a waitress sandwich together.
Seen the vw add a 100 times, Was that a real add? or just an internet creation that wont die?
Again??????...
Coincidentally, there is a new book out about how JFK Jr. was just as reckless, arrogant and stupid as his Uncle Ted.
Real written by future Sat Night Live
writer Ann Beatts.
Lampoon not afraid to go after the Kennedys
“Sargent Shriver’s Bleeding Hearts Club Band”
“What did you see when you turned off
the bridge?/ I can’t tell you buy I
think it drowned.”
but I think it drowned
The older models could actually float for about 20-30 minutes.
The old joke at the time:
Kopechne: “Teddy I am pregnant. What should we do?”
Teddy “We will cross that bridge when we get to it.”
:-)
I hope that Mary Jo's soul rest in peace, and we all owe her a vote of thanks as her death kept that fat lush from ever becoming POTUS.
Trump should pardon Sirhan on this anniversary. He’ll be 81 next year. A hero’s welcome in Palestine-fine. Rub the noses of the rats in it.
Kennedy, a married man, claimed the Dike Road excursion was a wrong turn.
= = =
I’ve been down that road, and stopped at that bridge.
You don’t get there by taking a wrong turn.
The road, turns, surroundings, ... are all different.
Now, if you had been down that road and over the bridge to the beach before, it would be real familiar.
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