Posted on 08/30/2009 9:54:27 PM PDT by advance_copy
The truth of what really happened on July 18, 1969, on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts will never be known. What is known is that at the end of the evening, Mary Jo Kopechne was found dead in a car that Edward (Ted) Kennedy had been driving. Was her death the result of a tragic accident or due to gross negligence on the part of Ted Kennedy?
Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne attended the same party on the evening of July 18, 1969. Kennedy left the party with Kopechne as a passenger in his car and accidentally drove off the road and into a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island. As reported in the Boston Globe, Kennedy was able to escape the submerged car and swim to safety. Kopechne was not and her body was later found in the car. Kennedy contacted multiple aids right after the accident, but did not notify authorities until the following morning. In fact, by the time Kennedy contacted local police, Kopechne's body had already been found.
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[Her death was the result of a tragic accident caused by Kennedy’s gross negligence.]
If this was all there was to it, why go to such great lengths to prevent an autopsy?
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I heard he DID go back to the party, but told his buddies not to call the cops. He and the buddies supposedly went to the crash site to see if they could “rescue” Mary Jo, to no avail. He wanted to keep the cops out of it, at all costs.
Also. None of the men’s wives new about the party. They only found out about after the accident happened and it all became public.
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OK - so that leaves 2 possibilities in my head.
He either was
1) So incredibly drunk he had no control while driving, barely manages to escape, and upon entering the hotel he sleeps off the drunk.
or
2)He intentionally tanks the car because she’s become some sort of threat. I wonder if they did a pregnancy test?
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