Posted on 07/17/2004 1:38:28 PM PDT by GeorgeW23225
Hey FReepers !!! Just a reminder !!
The 35th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne is July 19th, 2004. It's time to send Teddy some anniversary cards!!
Senator Ted Kennedy 315 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C., 20510
Senator Ted Kennedy 2400 JFK Building Bston. MA., 02203
I think it would so very appropriate for ALL FReepers to let Teddy know that WE remember. He deserves it !!
MAIL THOSE ANNIVERSARY CARDS TODAY !!!
Link should work now
http://www.ytedk.com/chapter5.htm
In Saudi Arabia, they'd cut his head off.
ML/NJ
In Memory of Mary Jo Kopechne ...
great minds think alike !! your e mail was exactly the same as mine, INCLUDING the "Have a drink for me" !! :-)
Gee, nice to know he will headline DNC Convention in Boston that starts on Mary Jo's birthday! Hell, they should have had the Convention onMartha's Vineyard! What's next, Teddy will name his dog SPLASH? Oh, he already has...
Uh, now we're all in trouble :)
Don't toy with peoples' emotions.... 8~)
That's tough to do when the subject has no neck.....
PiNg
This is an absolutely Mean Spirited thing to do but for the life of me i cant think of anyone who deserves it more !
Ted K., the worst of the worst Senators. He should have faced felony charges.
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The following is the written statement given by Ted Kennedy to Police Chief Dominick Arena on the morning of July19,1969. Throughout the legal proceedings, the Senator stuck to this version of events despite contradictory evidence and witness testimony. Perhaps as important as the inaccuracies within the statement is the fact that so many important details are conspicuously absent. "On July 18, 1969, at approximately 11:15 PM in Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vinyard, Massachusetts, I was driving my car on Main Street on my way to get the ferry back to Edgartown. I was unfamiliar with the road and turned right onto Dike Road, instead of bearing hard left on Main Street. After proceeding for approximately one-half mile on Dike Road I descended a hill and came upon a narrow bridge. The car went off the side of the bridge. There was one passenger with me, one Miss Mary ( Kennedy was not sure of the spelling of the dead girl's last name, and offered a rough phonetic approximation ), a former secretary of my brother Sen. Robert Kennedy. The car turned over and sank into the water and landed with the roof resting on the bottom. I attempted to open the door and the window of the car but have no recolection of how I got out of the car. I came to the surface and then repeatedly dove down to the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car. I was unsuccessful in the attempt. I was exhausted and in a state of shock. I recall walking back to where my friends were eating. There was a car parked in front of the cottage and I climbed into the back seat. I then asked for someone to bring me back to Edgartown. I remember walking around for a period of time and then going back to my hotel room. When I fully realized what had happened this morning, I immediately contacted the police." |
I agree ( on both counts ) :-)
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Man, that's a movie --at least the very ending scene with the ghost in the water taking vengeance on the Harrison Ford character--that should be shown over and over to that fat f**k Ted Kennedy.
Bet he'd absolutely FREAK--and I'd love to watch him do it!
Teddy turns 70 and we’re supposed to celebrate Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) – and his liver – hit 70 last week. He’s been in the U.S. Senate for almost 40 years now, and shows no sign of leaving. Sure, there was a rumor a few years ago that he wanted to retire to the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, but some dolt tipped him off that the wildlife there wasn’t the sort that Teddy so savors. Now he’s staying put.
Anyway, we were instructed that all should observe the b-day boy’s special event. Pronounced the publisher of the Lowell, Massachusetts Sun: “It’s fitting and proper no matter where we stand politically or personally to celebrate these milestones in the life of a man who endured so much personal tragedy, but has never given up his quest for improving the lives of those less fortunate.”
Yes, indeed, the deep thinkers often refer to the personal tragedies endured by the Kennedys. When John F. Kennedy Jr. died, ABC News reported: “Again and again, freak accidents and assassinations, drug abuse and scandals have stalked the family.”
Oh, now I see. The Kennedy clan bore little or no responsibility for drug abuse and scandals. Those were stalking the family.
On Teddy’s birthday, CNN’s senior political correspondent Candy Crowley said, “He is the last of the liberal lions, roaring on behalf of the voiceless.” A clip of the senator followed: “We stand to protect the consumers and to protect the patients, to protect the children, protect the women, to protect the disabled in this country.”
There was a time that Teddy wasn’t so concerned about protecting women. Remember Mary Jo Kopechne?
In 1969, she and five other women, all in their 20s and unmarried, attended a party in a rented cottage with Teddy and five other men. All the men, except for the 60-year-old chauffeur, were married. None of their wives was present.
There was a tremendous amount of liquor consumed. Kennedy denied he was under the influence when he and Miss Kopechne left the party together.
He claimed he took a wrong turn and drove his car into eight feet of water. He got out of the car, returned to the party and brought two other men to the scene of the accident. When they were unable to rescue the girl, he told the others he would call the police.
He didn’t. Instead, he returned to his motel, spoke to an employee there, began making telephone calls to associates and went to sleep. All that time Mary Jo Kopechne remained in the car.
Maybe she could have been saved. The captain of the Edgartown, Massachusetts’s scuba team believed she might have stayed alive in an air pocket for several hours.
The next morning the car and the girl’s body were found. When Kennedy finally completed an accident report, he didn’t even know her full name, referring to her simply as “Miss Mary ___.”
A sheriff said he had seen Kennedy’s car hours after Kennedy alleged the accident occurred. The senator asserted he based his estimate on the clock of the rented car he was driving. When it was learned the car didn’t have a clock, Kennedy changed his story.
A grand jury investigated, but the results were already decided. Said the district attorney, “I feel sorry for him (Kennedy). What’s all this business about a conflicting statement? That’s nothing! Never mind the press. Never mind being president. Let’s save him.”
Senator Kennedy didn’t want the girl’s body exhumed for an autopsy. Fortunately for him, neither did the judge responsible for making the decision. Described as a “party-line Democrat of limited judicial gifts,” the judge maintained a bust of President Kennedy on display in his chambers.
A member of the grand jury admitted, “We were dupes and boobs and let ourselves be manipulated. Nobody ever briefed us properly about what we could do.” Bragged the district attorney later, “There’s no question in my mind that the grand jury would have brought an indictment against Ted Kennedy for manslaughter, if I had given them the case.”
A few years later, in condemning President Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, Kennedy demanded to know, “Is there one system of justice for the average citizen and another system for the high and mighty?” The Leftist hypocrite learned the answer to the question in 1969.
His media defenders can look beyond all that. In his biography of Kennedy, the New York Times’ Adam Clymer wrote: “Yet his achievements as a Senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.”
And now he’s reached the ripe old age of 70. Mary Jo didn’t make it to 30. Then again, who even remembers her?
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