Posted on 03/29/2018 7:42:17 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Mary Jo Kopechne had been dead for several months when her parents began to have serious questions about what really happened the night of July 18, 1969.
At first, Gwen and Joe Kopechne had believed Senator Ted Kennedys account of that evening. They trusted him, says Mary Jos aunt, Georgetta Potoski, 75. They loved the Kennedys. But later on, they started to question what happened.
Ted Kennedy could never escape the unanswered questions about his 10-hour delay in reporting the accident to Edgartown police.
The longer it went on, more and more inconsistencies were discovered and he wasnt telling Gwen and Joe anything, says Potoski ,the sister of Gwen Kopechne. Gwen and Joe never had the last hours of their daughters life explained to them.
Now, 49 years after Mary Jos death, a new movie Chappaquiddick explores what happened that night and in the week that followed, when Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.
Potoski and her son William Nelson, 46, hope the film may prompt someone to come forward with new information and give them the answers they never got from Senator Kennedy. The truth has never really come out, says Nelson. The story has never been put to rest.
The film has not been well-received by the Kennedy camp.
Still, Potoski and her family hope that Mary Jos story being told on screen will result in more people learning that she was much more than just a blonde secretary, as she was often referred to at the time.
Potoski and Nelson have written a book, Our Mary Jo, about her life and have also launched a scholarship in her name at Potoskis alma mater, Misericordia College (now Misericordia University), to be given out for the first time this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
...'well, ha ha, it was fun while it lasted. I could sure use some Ice on that.' said in Bill's inimitable drawl and Hilary's grating screech.
...'well, ha ha, it was fun while it lasted. I could sure use some Ice on that.' said in Bill's inimitable drawl and Hilary's grating screech.
Maybe it wasn't an accident? Maybe the accident was staged to deflect from something worse, or darker?
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That was a good book. I believe as close to the truth as possible. Sorry the writer got Arkancided, or Hyannicided.
Actually there were verifiable accounts which were silenced, not first hand...only Teddy was first hand...including his telephone usage captured by phone records at New England Bell. Others included the then deputy sheriff LaSorta and the insurance investigator for General Insurance, insurers for the Olds.
Shed be alive today if that party were held recently. She would have blanked him at the cottage or its beach, not driven out to some secluded beach with him. Imagining that back then a woman needed to disappear from the scene with the guy to keep some semblance of a reputation.
Movie coming out this week, infact looks like Thursday here in Newnan, GA.
Don’t know how they will describe the events. It seems to me that Kennedy was not in the car when it went over the bridge, but there are so many questions. Formost being the changing stories that he gave, and the cover up.
There was absolutely no public scrutiny of it.
He claims that he swam back to his room, but I saw some report that he was speaking to the manager of the motel at 2:30AM. Was he in wet clothes? Or was the hotel manager paid to lie.
You have him seen by Deputy Sheriff Look at around 12:45am. He supposedly left the part at midnight with her. Told no one they were leaving. SHe leaves her purse at the party.
I contend that he was so drunk, he didn’t recall what had happened. He last remembered driving, but I think he got out of the car when he was approached by Officer Look, and panicked. He drives off a piece, then gets out of the car. He tells her to drive down to the beach. She does, goes off the bridge.
He follows on foot, and of course, it’s dark and he doesn’t see the car in the water. He doesn’t see the car at the beach. So, what does he do. Sleep on the beach, swim back to Edgartown?
I think your description is reasonably in line with the documentary I linked earlier... As for addressing the question of why admit to being in the car if he wasn’t, he might have viewed that as the lesser of two evils. Once he made the choice to put the neck brace on, he had to continue playing that canard.
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