Well first off, let me tell you how thankful and excited to have the opportunity to talk with another human being on this. It feels like I’ve been in a vacuum. The people I work with were all born after 1969.
The Damore book is great. Going thru it how. Also the youtube docs out there by Mayor Sam Yorty, Howie CArr both interviewing the diver.
Then theres a rateher detailed doc that covers it all.
Funny how NOVA never did one on Kennedy.
Mary Jo had no injuries according to the embalmer who was adamant. He said he was surprised that there was no autopsy. He said there was no way she died from drowning.
The guy is tall, confident, defiant and adamant about it.
"Teddy Bare" told the unvarnished story of Chappaquiddick. In their review at the time, no less than Esquire Magazine said the book proved Kennedy was guilty of manslaughter. I bought and read the book when it first came out and have never forgotten it. He was indeed guilty of manslaughter at minimum. He might very well have been guilty of outright murdering Mary Jo. There were rumors she was pregnant and her extremely fast burial lends some credence to that possibility.
Believe what you will, Nikos, but according to Kennedy's own testimony, he drove the car off the bridge. He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene. You can say it was to make him out to be some kind of hero, but if so, that plan backfired spectacularly. It cost him a shot at the presidency and he never was able to fully live it down even though he stayed in the senate until his death.
As for injuries to Mary Jo, she was hastily buried the day after the accident. But the DA attempted to have the body exhumed:
Later, on September 18, District Attorney Edmund Dinis attempted to secure an exhumation of Kopechne's body to perform a belated autopsy citing blood found on Kopechne's long-sleeved blouse and in her mouth and nose, "which may or may not be consistent with death by drowning." The reported discovery of the blood was made when her clothes were given to authorities by the funeral director.
We will never know the truth, of course, but the blood in her mouth and nose suggests a head injury, possibly a fractured skull -- or something more sinister, such as Kennedy beating her then rolling the car off the bridge. A possible head injury is consistent with her being in the passenger seat and being thrown against the passenger door or other passenger-side part of the car.
So I hope no one ever excuses this POS for what he did.
“He said he was surprised that there was no autopsy”
Didn’t the Kennedy family send a high ranking priest to visit the very devout Catholic Kopechne family the day after the “accident”? At that time money changed hands and Kopechnes declined / forbade an autopsy on their daughter.
I believe it was on the Reelz mini-series, “The Kennedys”, which was decidedly not favorable to the family. Supposedly, it was written using friends’ and family members’ accounts, and official documents.