Posted on 07/26/2020 4:53:23 AM PDT by billorites
Today would have been Mary Jo Kopechne’s 80th birthday.
Of course, Mary Jo didn’t even make it to 29 – she died on July 18, 1969, when Sen. Ted Kennedy drunkenly drove his mother’s 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont off a small bridge into a tidal pond on Chappaquiddick on Martha’s Vineyard.
Teddy, drunk and with an expired driver’s license, swam to safety and didn’t bother to even report the death (by suffocation, not drowning) for 10 hours. By then he’d already made more than a dozen long-distance phone calls off the island, including one to another of his girlfriends in Palm Beach.
He’d also enjoyed a leisurely breakfast at the Shiretown Inn in Edgartown. Later, when Teddy finally sat down in the Edgartown police chief’s office, shakily filling out the incident report, he left a blank space next to the words “Mary Jo” – he didn’t even know her last name.
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When he ran for president in 1980, he found himself in a motorcade on the Columbia University campus, driving down Fraternity Row.
Some of the frat boys had hooked up a loudspeaker, and it was blaring a Simon & Garfunkel song: “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.”
Occasionally, on the anniversary of Mary Jo’s death, Teddy’s Senate office would issue a pro forma statement: “I bear full responsibility for the tragedy and I always will.”
But the Kennedy “legacy” lives on. Teddy’s great-nephew runs for the Senate, his daughter-in-law for Congress in New Jersey. Teddy named his final dog, “Splash,” and now has a giant white elephant of a monument to himself in Dorchester — the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.
The institute features something called the “Senate Immersion Module.” Immersion — you can’t make this stuff up.
Happy 80th birthday, Mary Jo Kopechne.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
I wonder if Morning Joek will celebrate his late secretary’s birthday?
We should also give quiet thanks to Ms. Kopechne that her ultimate sacrifice kept a traitorous, selfish and destructive Ted Kennedy from inflicting himself on the entire nation as President.
I remember Ted’s election campaign against sitting president Jimmah Cahtah.
Ted was in Iowa, speaking to a group of farmers at a grain elevator south of Des Moines.
He looked out on the railroad tracks and asked, rhetorically, “How’s the service out here on the Wabash ?”
The farm folks were puzzled...it had been more than 100 years since the Wabash served Iowa...
What is it the Democrats called that slug Ted? The Lion of the Senate?
Mary Jo died for her (our) country in keeping Ted out of the White House.
God bless her.
I remember in the '92 campaign when word came out that Clinton had smoked weed during his college years. Back then, that was a big deal, and I thought he was sunk. I was personally insulted when he sold the line, "I smoked but didn't inhale." I assumed most Americans would see this for the lie it was and his assault on the intellect of any thinking person. Of course I was wrong, and it turned out people either were stupid, or comfortable with their politicians treating them like they were.
There is massive flooding in China with Youtube videos of innumerable flooded vehicles. Strangely believe it, there are also frequent videos of floating cars. Some are slowly drifting and others caught up in a rapid torrent and moving swiftly down the river
This is not your father’s Oldsmobile.
During the license suspension period he was *caught* driving twice (meaning he never stopped driving) and nothing happened to him.
And yet voters of the Gay State sent him to the Senate...time and time again...where he,along with Sheets Byrd,was labeled "The Conscience of the Senate".
Massachusucks has really come up with some left wing wonders. Kennedy of course. But currently we have our Vietnam hero, John Kerry and then our woman of color, Liawatha.
I have absolutely no use for our arrogant norther eastern libtards.
And the Massachusetts liberal aholes elected him Senator for life!!!
If you go down the path about 10 yards from JFKs grave you will see a small plaque next to the path that is Teddy’s grave marker. I found it by accident. What a fitting end to the “Lying Lion of the Senate”.
Mary Jo, happy birthday. Even though you were murdered, you helped keep Teddy away from the White House!
Re: Post #3.. True. It was the only good thing that came out of that murder!
My dad called Teddy: The LIAR of the Senate!
Re: Post #9 That ‘ad’ was a parody ad, but I thought it was real when I was a kid.
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