Mary Jo Kopechne (would've been) 65 years old today

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKkopechne.htm ^

[Born Conservative]

Mary Jo Kopechne, the daughter of an insurance salesman, was born in the village of Forty Fort, Pennsylvania

Forty-Fort is not a "village", it's a borough.

[leadpenny]

"I was rather young at the time but, didn't kennedy get a quick burial and no autopsy..."

for who?

[fishbabe]

didn't he get mary jo buried rather quickly??????

[ken5050]

Try this little test today..when you're out and about..at work or whatever..ask 10 or so of your friends/aquiantainces/co-workers if they know who MJK is?

[leadpenny]

Initially, I don't believe he was doing anything other than trying to save his own reputation in the press. Later there was talk that Mary Jo's family was secretly compensated.

[leadpenny]

Earlier I was thinking my first casual comment at work was going to be about MJK's 65th birthday. Of course many of my coworkers are old enough to remember. I get your point, though, and will try it on some younger folks too.

[leadpenny]

Don't forget, Apollo 11 covered up much of what should have been the scandal of the decade.

[gakrak]

I just sent him a reminder and also that today is my 64th birthday and am doing something that Mary Jo never got to do, which is, enjoy her family today on her 65th. Amen.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Someone needs to chisel that quote on Charlie Pierce's tombstone. Soon, I hope.

[PGalt]

Condolences to her family and friends.

[ken5050]

manya re indeed olf enough..but do they?...Please report back the results......(G)

[leadpenny]

Bookmarked!

[beyond the sea]

I hear you.

Be well!

[Capn TrVth]

Anyone under 30 will say "Maynard James Keenan" ;>

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[beyond the sea]

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=1031

[goarmy]

Just a reminder to read Leo Damore's "Senatorial Privilege" (c. 1988, ISBN No. 0895265648) for everything you've ever wanted to know about this tragedy.

[beyond the sea]

didn't kennedy get a quick burial and no autopsy...

who?

If you're talking about Mary Jo K., she died of suffocation......... not drowning!

[yarddog]

The book "Senatorial Privilege" by Leo Damore was very good. I remember noticing in the pictures that only a couple of the girls at the party were attractive, including Mary Jo.

Kennedy definitely was guilty of manslaughter, but the real crime was just plain cowardliness, combined with selfishness.

[yarddog]

We must be on the same wavelength.

[Christopher Lincoln]

The mainstream media of the time not only kept quiet about the Kennedys' behavior, sexual and otherwise, but affirmatively helped to draw a false picture. How false it was, most Americans did not learn until the Chappaquiddick tragedy, which the press could not get out of reporting. The spectacle of these middle-aged married men running around with young women (obviously not their wives) revealed a whole new world. Of course, we were always hearing that businessmen were like that (do you remember The Apartment?). But they were the private sector; the men who governed us couldn't be like that, could they?