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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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.
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.
Post of the day...and nails the swimmer!
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Re: “I have seen video of him at her funeral where he is wearing a collar.
What a piece of fiction. That collar doesnt 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.
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.
Re: “You arent kidding its getting closer. I .... think hes ..... to last the ......”
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Re your second sentence above -— fingers and toes crossed that you are correct!!!
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?
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That is funny.
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.
What? This thread is about Ted. I think the other scum have been throughly covered here at one time or another, LOL
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.
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.
I’m just barely old enough to remember that stuff. Ain’t it great having no-conscience sociopaths running this country?
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.
You’da thought that the city hall would have had the bridge replaced then sold pieces of the old one to raise revenue.
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