[martin_fierro]

MRC Quote of the Year (2003):

“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

-- Charles Pierce in a January 5, 2003 Boston Globe Magazine article.

[AnimalLover]

I suggest we all send a little note to good, ol Ted!

[dk/coro]

AAWWWW, please don't get me started on this murderer!

Acute Alcoholic Poisoning is far too easy a way out for this human excrement. I wish him a very slow one!

[beyond the sea]

"I was unfamiliar with the road

Total bull.

[kipita]

I've always thought she was pregnant (for a Kennedy) and thus she became a liability.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

I attempted to open the door and window of the car but have no recollection 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."....Sure Ted and snowbirds fly in hell...

[mark3681]

Like Jack's "assassination", no one will ever know the truth.

[XHogPilot]

My favorite Ted Kennedy website: http://www.yted.com Ted Kennedy: The Truth about Chappaquiddick, and more a.k.a. Chappaquiddick: A profile in cowardice, Ted Kennedy, the accident, and the cover-up

[Fresh Wind]

Mary Jo died for her country. In doing so, she saved us from any possibility that Admiral Oldsmobile would ever be president.

[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.

[PGalt]

Condolences to her family and friends.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[commonasdirt]

Hopefully on this alcoholic gasbags tombstone we will see the words "Murdering Lier" spraypainted on a regular basis. Hell, if I know where they plant his piano case coffin I might just do it myself.

His place in history is assured for the incident.

[reagan_fanatic]

Instead of reporting the accident Edward Kennedy returned to the party

That's the part of this whole sordid affair that bothers me the most. Anyone who had even the slightest concern for someone who may be in imminent peril would immediately go for the Police. Instead, he went back to the party.

Ted Kennedy is a murderer.

[rahbert]

Wonder if NPR will devote a segment to MJK's 65th ..?

[Biblebelter]

The mean -spiritedness publicly displayed by Kennedy since Chappaquidick, give further testament that it was no accident.

[sandydipper]

Just before the wreck - Kennedy was seen by a police officer - Kennedy was driving on a suspended drivers license. He sped away from the police officer knowing: 1) his license was suspended 2)that he was drunk and 3)the cop would have put him in jail. Kennedy was running from the law when he wrecked and killed Mary Jo.

Can we all say worthless??

[montag813]

Don't hold your breath for one of our GOP Senatorial cowards to mention this in the Senate.