Posted on 08/27/2009 2:39:41 PM PDT by RobinMasters
“Mary Jo’s PARENTS accepted, I think it was 100K, to SHUT UP! No kidding. Her PARENTS were happily paid off by the Kennedys.”
It was $162,000.00 ($200,000.00 minus atty’s fees).
Brilliant!
On another thread I saw a picture of Patrick Kennedy in a neck brace. Father-son neck braces, how convenient.
Screw Rollins, I want to hear what Jello has to say about the passing of another Dead Kennedy.
You are right.
There’s ALWAYS room for Jello ... in the conversation.
Yes. It isn’t the accident, a drunk Senator plunging off a small bridge, and even the accidental death therefrom that is so unforgivable.
(I am thinking of a funny actor on a current TV show who was driving drunk and caused a death. He served his time behind bars and I believe his crime is forgivable although horrible, of course.)
It’s the cover up and why. While Mary Jo waited for what she assumed would be a rescue any minute, breathing the air pocket until it finally ran out of oxygen, Teddy decided to first SLEEP OFF HIS DRUNK and hope that a family member would magically save him from this little mishap too. He WENT TO BED knowing she was still underwater in his car.
He chose saving his career over saving the life of the girl he was surely intending to “mate” just hours earlier.
The REASON he was the everpresent Lion of the Senate was ONLY because he escaped responsibility for her death.
I don’t know what he could have been convicted of potentially, but I’d almost think he was eligible for worse like “lying in wait” or some such by his abhorrently deliberate negligence. He should have served time in jail.
I was shocked when walking the stacks in my uni’s library to find 2 books by Rollins. I don’t know how good he is, but the guy seems multi-talented. And I thought he was just a pretty face. : )
On July 18, 1969, Kennedy and five other men – all but one of whom was married – met six single young women who had worked on Robert Kennedy’s 1968 campaign. The women were known as the “Boiler Room Girls” for their tireless work in a windowless office in that ill-fated campaign. All of them, especially Teddy, had grieved hard when Bobby had been killed 15 months earlier. Although he was only 37 years of age, Teddy had lost all three of his brothers; two to assassin’s bullets, one in the skies over England in World War II. Mary Jo Kopechne had felt gut-shot by Bobby’s murder, too. For all of those people who met in the cottage in the island off Martha’s Vineyard, getting together must have been cathartic.
Sometime late at night after an evening of drinking, Kennedy and Kopechne went for a drive in his 1967 Oldsmobile. Kennedy placed the time he left at 11:15 p.m. A local cop who believed he saw the car put the time at 12:40 a.m. – significant at the time because Kennedy testified that he was taking Kopechne to a ferry that ran to Edgartown, a ferry that stopped running at midnight. In any event, Kennedy wasn’t headed toward the ferry landing when his car careened off Dike Bridge and into the inlet known as Poucha Pond; they were heading toward the beach.
Kennedy got out of the car alive, Mary Jo Kopechne did not. He said he dived down several times to try and rescue her, before walking back to the cottage where his friends were staying. To do so, he passed at least four houses with working telephones, including one 150 yards from the accident with a porch light on – as well as a firehouse with a pay phone. When he got to the cottage, none of the women were told what happened. According to the 763-page coroner’s inquest, this was just the first of a series of appalling decisions Kennedy made that night, decisions that stretch credulity.
First of all, he and two of the men, a cousin named Joseph Gargan and a friend named Paul Markham say they returned to the bridge to try and rescue Mary Jo. (If the Edgartown constable who believes he saw Kennedy was accurate, this was impossible.) Next, the men claimed that they drove Kennedy to the Chappaquiddick ferry landing, where he told them not to tell the other women for fear that they would try to rescue Mary Jo – at great peril to themselves – and assured them that he would report the incident to authorities. Then, the men said, Kennedy dove into the water and swam across the sound to Edgartown himself.
Upon reaching Edgartown, Kennedy went to his room at a local inn – it was now 2:25 a.m., — where he spent the night, and the following morning engaged in small talk about sailing with a local yachter and agreed to have breakfast with the man when Gargan and Markham showed up about 7:30. They asked him who he’d called about the accident only to receive the astounding reply: no one. Kennedy explained it this way at the inquest: “I just couldn’t gain the strength within me, the moral strength, to call Mrs. Kopechne at 2 in the morning and tell her that her daughter was dead.” But he hadn’t called the cops, either, and wouldn’t until 9 a.m.
Not reporting a fatal traffic accident is a felony in most places. On Martha’s Vineyard, if the driver is a Kennedy, it’s not even a matter of official curiosity: The local police chief never even asked Kennedy why he waited nine hours to report what had happened. The state of Massachusetts, citing Kennedy’s excessive speed on the bridge, suspended his license for six months. That was it.
“Mary Jo’s PARENTS accepted, I think it was 100K, to SHUT UP! No kidding. Her PARENTS were happily paid off by the Kennedys.”
It was $162,000.00 ($200,000.00 minus atty’s fees).
Sorry ... You are RIGHT!
It doesn’t make the parents any more gallant though, does it ? ;-)
What a SCUMBAG, that guy. It is worth it to read it fully again about him.
Had Ted Kennedy been a Republican, you would have seen “Specials” on Mary Jo, and interviews with her family and friends this week.
(Altho, a Republican would have gone to jail.)
To make it worse, it was pretty much determined that Mary Jo probably lived a couple hours after the accident. There was an air pocket at the top that kept her alive for a while. Can you imagine... she was probably assuming Teddy went for help and she was waiting for that, but help never came. Disgusting vile pig.
Rollins can say something smart every now and then. Some lefty interviewed him after he went over to Iraq, and asked how it was over there, and Rollins said that it is a good thing that people can vote. The interviewer just swallowed his tongue. But, he calls them as he sees them.
Rollins can say something smart every now and then. Some lefty interviewed him after he went over to Iraq, and asked how it was over there, and Rollins said that it is a good thing that people can vote. The interviewer just swallowed his tongue. But, he calls them as he sees them.
Didn’t Rush just say Kennedy welcomed Mary Jo jokes? What sicko he was.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.