What Happened at Chappaquiddick [Happy Anniversary

American Heritage ^ | July 18, 2006 | Alexander Burns

[ncountylee]

Late on the night of July 18, 1969, a car went off a bridge on Martha’s Vineyard. With a young senator from Massachusetts, Edward Kennedy, at the wheel, the Oldsmobile sank into the water beneath the Dike Bridge.

In a sequence of events that instantly became famous, Senator Kennedy escaped from the submerged vehicle and swam to shore. By 2:30 a.m. he had made his way back to his hotel in Edgartown, where he was sighted in the lobby. He made 17 phone calls to family members and associates. But not until 10 hours after the accident did he call the police to tell them about the car crash—and the other person in the car, who had died.

Senator Kennedy had not been alone. Riding alongside him had been a young woman, not his wife, named Mary Jo Kopechne. She had been sitting next to him as they drove away from a party, and as they crossed Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island the accident ended her life. It would haunt the rest of Kennedy’s career.

After President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and then the killing of Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy was regarded as the next standard-bearer of America’s foremost political family. With the 1972 presidential election approaching, many, including some of President Richard M. Nixon’s advisers, expected the youngest Kennedy brother to make a bid for the White House. As the details of the events at Chappaquiddick slowly emerged, however, they significantly weakened his prospects.

[Rummyfan]

NO! Some enterprising prosecutor should take up this case.

[raccoonradio]

http://fatboy.cc/live_from_chappaquiddick.htm

Howie Carr's site about Ted Kennedy has a 1994 (yes, the years have really gone by eh HC) interview Howie did with the diver who removed Mary Jo's body from the Olds Delmont.

Other stuff of interest is also on fatboy.cc

[N. Theknow]

New tagline...

No, it's been in the family for years.

Actually, I think I started using it almost two years ago.

[weegee]

I meant mine!

[EagleUSA]

......how did the orca manage to get out and she remained behind.
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Hard to say what happened exactly, but my guess is, being the self-serving loser liberal that Fats is, he did not give a damn about her, and let her drown. It was probably all that fat, drunken slob could do just to get himself (all of it) out of the car...and then start calling all his stooges in the government to start protecting his miserable fat butt.

[Protagoras]

There is a chance that he was not in the car.

[N. Theknow]

New tagline...

Oh, you mean your tagline...DUH on me!

Sorry.

Your's looks great!

I trust/hope you will receive as many favorable comments as mine does.

[Rummyfan]

BTTT!

[DumpsterDiver]

I say, too bad the Senator didn't have an exit strategy for Mary Jo.

LOL. Did the senator's aide have any further comments?

[Palladin]

I wonder how Teddy celebrates this date? Does he take his buddy Chris Dodd down to Georgetown for a "waitress sandwich"?

[tioga]

-that he deliberately sent her to her death while watching from the bridge?

[Peach]

America's criminal royal party sure gets away with a lot.

[raccoonradio]

oops, actually it was at Fenway Park. The following is right from tedkennedy.com (I believe the second figure on the left in this pic is Ruf Ruffman, a PBS cartoon character) :

"It was a dog day at Fenway Park as Senator Edward Kennedy and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, visited the old ballyard Wednesday for a school reading event.

The senator read a portion of his new children’s book, “My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington D.C.,” to a group of Boston-area school children.

The picture book takes readers through a day in the life of the senator, told from the perspective of Splash.

Joining Kennedy was Red Sox outfielder Gabe Kapler, who is recuperating from a torn Achilles tendon. Kapler swapped his baseball bat for a tennis racket and hit tennis balls toward the “Green Monster” for Splash to fetch.”

[N. Theknow]

See my 47.

Sorry. Long day of phone sitting.

[napscoordinator]

Today is the 37th anniversary of the despicable Kennedy's crime.



I was only two months old in July 1969, but didn't they do an investigation at the time? Did they find any proof of your accusation? Was he found guilty at a trial? I feel the same way with Kennedy the same way I do with DaLay. Are the liberals going to do the same thing in 37 years? I am an extremely fair person. I think that is one of the conservative attributes. Your post sounded so liberal...they are the ones that spit hate and facts that are not true. We are not God. How do you know that he in fact killed this women.

[Vision]

No mention of Chappaquiddick is complete without the "boiler room girls". These were a group of secretaries/aids that Kennedy's group would cheat on their wives with which included Kopechne.

Basically, Teddy was driving his way to commit adultery with Mary Joe on a remote beach. He was so drunk that we drove off a bridge and left her to die while he went to call his lawyer.

Possibly the greatest political cover up in modern times.

[YCTHouston]

Maybe you'd like to post the number, you know for education purposes only. Somebody's kid might be doing a report on how to call a drunk murderous senator's office.

[montomike]

Crap floats!

[ErnBatavia]

The Senator's office just hung up on me while I was wishing the Senator all the worst.

Sounds like they're sensitive to "Happy Anniversary" wishes...

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