I forget, how does one spell “is”?
At least he was consistent.
But did he have sex with her?
How con-veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenient.
Kennedy 'joked about Chappaquiddick'
Biographer reveals deadly incident was a 'favorite topic of humor'
August 28, 2009
"Edward Klein, speaking to WAMU guest host Katty Kay, said one of Kennedy's 'favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquiddick.'
"He would ask people, 'Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?' said Klein, a former Newsweek foreign editor and former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108256
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YouTube video: Kennedy liked to joke about Chappaquiddick
"This isn't an accusation from Ted Kennedy's political opponents, but a nostalgic remembrance by one of his friends. Ed Klein, former Newsweek editor, tells the Diane Rehm Show:
"I dont know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. And he would ask people, have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick? That is just the most amazing thing. Its not that he didnt feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too."
Isn’t he the guy who loved jokes about her murder?
And to think that the Catholic Church even let his casket into their front door. Disgusting!!!!!
Like the evening in Palm Beach when your nephew was getting himself in trouble, one of the women invited over swore in court you answered the front door with absolutely nothing but a TeeShirt and a drink?
Dude! She is dead because you didn't do the right thing! You actually walked pass the firestation and a private house on the long way to your hotel... where you turned in for the night.
RIH! I hope Mary Jo is waiting for you with a bat...
Dead is dead.
Sounds like a good fiction read, aside from the barf factor.
He “regrets getting drinks” with Wm. K. Smith?? I thought he roused the “boys” (Wm. and Patrick) to go out with the specific goal of drinking and picking up women.
I think he killed her because he had knocked her up!
Yes, and his college buddy made him cheat on the Spanish test.
Yeah, Ted, I saw the pictures of you in the speedboat in that old GQ article. I’ll just bet you did.
...She (Mary Joe K.) was in Green Oldsmobile, taking Dictation.
11pm @ night....right. 
...just how many drinks...errr...a bottle(s) of Scotch Whiskey before 10:30am, every morning?
I sell books as a side-line. That book has REMAINDER MARK written all over it, LOL!
Trust me. Any books written by Liberals go straight to CLEARANCE.
Books by true Conservatives (No RINOS!!) hold their value no matter how hard the liberals in the bookstores try to hide them in the back of the store. :)
Birth: Jul. 26, 1940
Death: Jul. 19, 1969
Teacher and Administrator, she is most remembered for her controversial death in an automobile accident with Senator Edward Kennedy; the resulting political scandal caused Kennedy to reverse his decision to run for the US Presidency. Born in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, she was the only child of insurance salesman Joseph and Gwen Kopechne. After graduating from Caldwell College, New Jersey, she taught at Montgomery Catholic High School in Montgomery, Alabama, and then moved to Washington DC to work as a secretary for Florida Senator George Smathers. Shortly afterwards, she went to work as a secretary for New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy following his election in 1964. After Senator Robert F. Kennedy's death in 1968, she moved to Matt Reese Associates, a Washington DC firm that helped politicians establish campaign headquarters, and it was there she met Senator Edward Kennedy, Robert Kennedy's younger brother.
On the evening of July 18, 1969, she attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, in honor of the "Boiler Room Girls," a name given to the six young women who had helped the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy during his presidential campaign, and who had closed up his files after his assassination in June 1968. All six of the women were single, and the six men in attendance were all married but present without their wives, and the attendees gathered for a late night party at the Lawrence Cottage, rented by Joe Gargan for the occasion.
Late that evening (the exact time is in dispute), Kennedy offered to drive Kopechne back to her hotel at the Katama Shores Motor Inn in Edgartown, and later claimed that he mistakenly took a wrong, right turn onto Dyke Road, a dirt road leading to a beach about a mile down the road, instead of turning left onto the paved Chappaquiddick Road leading to the ferryboat which they would need to use to go to Kopechne's motel.
A half-mile down Dyke Road, Kennedy drove off the side of the Dyke Bridge, and the car overturned into Poucha Pond. Kennedy got out of the overturned car, but Kopechne failed to exit the car and died. Kopechne's body was recovered later that morning; the diver reporting that Kopechne had positioned herself near the back seat wheel well where an air pocket had formed, and had apparently suffocated rather than drowned. Her parents ruled out an autopsy, so the cause of death was never officially determined.
Senator Kennedy later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, for which he received a two-month suspended sentence and one year probation. Kopechne's death and Kennedy's failure to properly deal with the accident, along with numerous discrepancies in his account of what happened, damaged his reputation and is regarded by many as the major reason that he decided to cancel his run for the presidency in 1972 and subsequent years.
Kopechne's funeral was held on July 22, 1969, at St. Vincent's Roman Catholic Church in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and she was buried in the parish cemetery there.
(bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Burial:
Saint Vincents Cemetery
Larksville
Luzerne County
Pennsylvania, USA
The new family tombstone, erected after the death of Mary Jo's mother in December, 2007.
Added by: Geoff Wilson, 9/04/2008
Maybe some of those boiler room girls, supposed friends of Mary Jo, at the party that night will have enough guts tocome forward and tell the truth about what happened. Kennedy can’t do anything to hurt them now if they do.
Little surprise! Ted Kennedy makes a lame and feeble attempt
at rewriting history - from the grave, no less.
Sorry Ted, didn’t believe you when you were living; not about to start believing you now.