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Mary Jo Kopechne died 40 years ago today
Cape Cod Today ^ | 07/18/09 | Mary Wentworth

Posted on 07/18/2009 7:51:36 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat

Just past midnight on Saturday, July 19, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his black Oldsmobile sedan off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard, just off Cape Cod. The Senator escaped a watery death, but a passenger in his car, twenty-eight-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: anniversary; bias; chappaquiddick; drowning; edwardkennedy; hypocrisy; kennedy; kennedyfamily; kopechne; liberals; maryjokopechne; senatorsplash; suffocation; tedkennedy; theswimmer
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To: Recovering_Democrat

In the town where I was born
Lived a man named Kennedy
And he told us of his night
In his four-wheel submarine

So we drove out to the bridge
Till we found the sea of green
And we looked beneath the waves
For his four-wheel submarine

We all died in a four-wheel submarine,
four-wheel submarine, four-wheel submarine,
We all live in a four-wheel submarine,
four-wheel submarine, four-wheel submarine.

And his friends are all aboard
Many more of them live next door
And they all just look away
(blub, blub, blub, blub, blub, blub, blub, blub)

We all died in a four wheel-submarine,
four-wheel submarine, four wheel-submarine,
We all live in a four wheel-submarine,
four-wheel submarine, four-wheel submarine.

(Full speed ahead, Mr. Kennedy, full speed ahead!
Full speed over here, Captain!
Action stations! Action stations!
Aye, aye, sir, splash!
Teddy! Teddy!)

Now they live a life of ease
Every one of them has all they need
Whiskey gold and money green
And they forget that submarine

We all died in a four-wheel submarine,
four-wheel submarine, four-wheel submarine,
We all live in a four wheel-submarine,
four-wheel submarine, four-wheel submarine.


61 posted on 07/18/2009 9:43:30 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Rest in peace, Mary Jo.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

JFK Jr. died 10 years ago today. Coincidence? Someone once said that “we owe God a death.” Fat Teddy may have cashed in his, via a nephew.


62 posted on 07/18/2009 9:44:12 AM PDT by Shqipo (When Conservatives bicker and stay away from the polls, the country dies a little faster.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Post of the day...and nails the swimmer!


63 posted on 07/18/2009 9:49:16 AM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: charmedone
Correction. She was murdered 40 years ago by a drunk driver that would have been charged, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison. That is unless he is a Socialist democrat from Massachusetts with a mobed up father who has many millions of dollars and several democrat pols in his pocket

fixed

64 posted on 07/18/2009 9:49:37 AM PDT by Gordon Pym
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To: Recovering_Democrat
And so was born The Hero of Chappaquiddick.
65 posted on 07/18/2009 10:00:50 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Recovering_Democrat

66 posted on 07/18/2009 10:06:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin ("A new Dark Ages made all the more terrible and prolonged by the sinister powers of science.")
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To: digger48

Re: “I have seen video of him at her funeral where he is wearing a collar.
What a piece of fiction. That collar doesn’t do a damn thing unless you have a serious neck injury.

It was all for show and the idiots that live in MA fell for it.

and the next generation just KEEPS falling for it....”

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I was 20 here in CA when this happened — no one believed a word of TK’s story back then. Now CA would not care, having turned into the cesspool that it is today. Most in MA have always been idiots, charmed forever by the Kennedy name.

Fitting, isn’t it, that he is a sickly old man now marking the days before his own demise. Too bad he will be so medicated he likely won’t feel the final moments coming === he should suffer the way Mary Jo undoubtedly did. Drowning has to be among the worst ways to go.


67 posted on 07/18/2009 10:07:52 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: Sir Clancelot

Re: “My only concern with his ultimate death will be all the drivel we will hear at his funeral about what a true patriot he was and how much he did for the country and how many buildings we will need to name after him.”

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He essentially killed his first wife, Joan, as well. That poor woman suffered so much being part of that ‘family’ and as his wife that she turned into a drunken mess herself.

If I lived near where his funeral will take place, I’d be sure to be outside, with signs, reminding people about Mary Jo and the truth about Kennedy.


68 posted on 07/18/2009 10:10:18 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: Andy'smom

Re: “You aren’t kidding it’s getting closer. I .... think he’s ..... to last the ......”

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Re your second sentence above -— fingers and toes crossed that you are correct!!!


69 posted on 07/18/2009 10:15:20 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I guess none of the posters here bothered to read the article.

They are pushing the theory that Mary Jo was asleep in the back seat with Kennedy and an unknown front seat passenger (possibly Rosemary Keough) unaware of her presence. The claim is that the whole thing began as a relatively innocent attempt to shield Kennedy from a wreckless driving inquiry until it was discovered the next day that Mary Jo was missing.

Anybody buying this?


70 posted on 07/18/2009 10:19:01 AM PDT by slumber1 (Serenity Now!)
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To: slumber1
"wreckless driving inquiry"

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That is funny.

71 posted on 07/18/2009 10:20:18 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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72 posted on 07/18/2009 10:21:29 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If you cant tell if I'm being sarcastic...maybe I'm not.)
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To: slumber1

I guess none of the posters here bothered to read the article.

Re: “They are pushing the theory that Mary Jo was asleep in the back seat with Kennedy and an unknown front seat passenger (possibly Rosemary Keough) unaware of her presence. The claim is that the whole thing began as a relatively innocent attempt to shield Kennedy from a wreckless driving inquiry until it was discovered the next day that Mary Jo was missing.

Anybody buying this?”

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Of course we are not buying it! This appeared in the Cape Cod fish wrap for heaven’s sake. Those people are so far up the a**es of the Kennedy’s it’s disgusting. Have you been there? I have and whoa, what a populace! Sick.

Went to Martha’s Vineyard, too, and asked where the bridge had been and so on. Was met with vile looks and refusal to discuss it. Figures, right? The whole area has been changed and is very difficult to find at all. I didn’t have time to pursue it.


73 posted on 07/18/2009 10:36:05 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: Sunshine Sister

What? This thread is about Ted. I think the other scum have been throughly covered here at one time or another, LOL


74 posted on 07/18/2009 10:46:36 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (-0 retreats, Iraq explodes! NK fires missiles! Iran erupts! China erupts!)
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To: slumber1

That theory was popular at one point, but I tend to believe Ted’s cousin, Joe Gargan’s version of what happened. Kennedy came back to the cottage alone and told both Gargan and Paul Markham that Mary Jo was in the submerged car.


75 posted on 07/18/2009 10:47:49 AM PDT by Andy'smom
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To: CaliforniaCon

The original bridge is gone. Tourists were chipping away pieces and making nuisances of themselves. I imagine that happens at a lot of well known crime scenes, but the locals got sick of it.


76 posted on 07/18/2009 12:22:57 PM PDT by Andy'smom
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To: JRochelle

I’m just barely old enough to remember that stuff. Ain’t it great having no-conscience sociopaths running this country?


77 posted on 07/18/2009 1:05:06 PM PDT by FlyVet (C)
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To: Andy'smom

That is right and then Gargan, Kennedy and Markham returned to the bridge where Gargan tried unsuccessfully to fight the tide and recover her.

He said during this time, Kennedy lay on the bridge crying and moaning about what would happen to him. Absolutely the scum of the earth.


78 posted on 07/18/2009 1:23:26 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Andy'smom

You’da thought that the city hall would have had the bridge replaced then sold pieces of the old one to raise revenue.


79 posted on 08/29/2009 1:28:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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