Posted on 07/18/2020 2:22:14 PM PDT by billorites
Onn the evening of July 18, 1969, Mary Jo Kopechne died while trying to free herself from Edward M. Kennedy’s submerged automobile in a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island.
The fortieth anniversary of Miss Kopechne’s death passed with scarcely a word’s being mentioned of it in the media. Perhaps it was not simply a matter of liberal bias. With Senator Kennedy now seriously ill, many journalists no doubt considered that it might be unseemly to bring up the subject.
But however uncomfortable it may be to recall the circumstances of Mary Jo Kopechne’s death, Americans must not forget what happened to her, nor must a delicate sensibility prevent us from remembering how a powerful man and his savvy handlers were able to shield him from responsibility for his behavior towards her. Mary Jo Kopechne died because, after recklessly causing an accident, Teddy Kennedy, in his nearly unfathomable self-absorption and political ambition, failed to do what almost anyone would have done to rescue her — namely, report the accident and call for emergency help. Instead, Kennedy thought only of himself and his political career.
Mary Jo Kopechne was 29 years old when she died. She was a bright and idealistic young woman who had worked closely with Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in the presidential campaign that ended tragically with his assassination in June 1968. On July 18, 1969, she attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island that reunited several of RFK’s campaign workers and friends. Teddy Kennedy also attended the party, and he and Miss Kopechne left together sometime before midnight, with Kennedy at the wheel of his 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88.
Having taken a wrong turn, and driving too fast along a dirt road, Kennedy was unable to brake properly when approaching Dike Bridge, which had no guardrail. The car went
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He was drunk as a Lord. That’s why the delay in reporting the crime. Teddy had to be sobered up.
Are they selling MJK signature series neck braces? Revell models of maroon Oldsmobiles?
He asked the people of Massachusetts whether they wanted him to resign. “Think this through with me,” he said. “In facing this decision, I seek your advice and opinion. In making it I seek your prayers.”
Any man with any sense of morality would have taken responsibility for his actions that night, accepted his punishment, and retired from public life to quietly do good works. But not Ted Kennedy, whom the people of Massachusetts saw fit to return to The Senate ... until his death. Giving him the opportunity to do as much damage to the country as he could. The old drunk can rot in hell AFAIC.
The recent movie is worth a view.
No, I'm quite sure the judge was very handsomely rewarded, either financially or professionally, or both.
One of the other young women at the party that night, Esther Newberg later became ...
The New York Post called her "one of the most powerful agents in the literary world."[5]
Was her silence bought with professional advancement?!
John was Captain of PT 109 and got run over by a Japanese destroyer when he fell asleep on duty.
Teddy, not to be outdone by his brother, bravely and drunkenly took command of Oldsmobile 88 and promptly sank it.
I have the Kennedy Clan at 2 killed,1 raped,1 molested and 1 crippled in “The War Against Women (And Girls)”.
Wasn’t that in National Lampoon magazine? I used to have a huge collation but my basement flooded and I lost them all. Lost my Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddie’s Cat comic books too.
I think he got her pregnant and deliberately killed her.
Yes it was.
A man with any morals wold have gotten her out of the car before she died.
Mary jo was alive when he left the seen of the accident.
Kopechne’s body the morning after the crash was in a position that suggested she had remained alive for an unknown period of time after the car went underwater. Her face was pressed into the footwell, and her hands gripped the back of the front seat, as if she had been trying to push her head into a pocket of air.
Not the first rat to put his power and position more important than a human life .
My mom threw away all my Heavy Metal magazines after I joined the Navy, along with National lampoon!
That was my mother’s theory, She always said that was why there was no autopsy.
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Let’s look at this from a positive perspective. Teddy has now been sober for 12 years.
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I thought it was pretty good. I have read the book “Senatorial Privilege” twice, and I thought it was reasonable.
He was scum. Bottom sucking scum.
Senatorial Privilege was published in 1988 yet rereading it never gets old. Enduring truths have that quality.
Dude, First rule, leave the important stuff with a buddy.
Or have a mom like me who still has son #2’s 1991 T-bird parked in my driveway where he left it after he blew the engine at least 15 years ago.
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