July 18, 1969
This day in history, Mary Jo Kopechne was killed by Ted Kennedy.
This is the video of Sen. Ted Kennedy, in his own words, trying to explain his actions that evening.
This is a tragic story that has been ignored. I was not even born yet when this happened. I had heard somethings about it here and there but, never the entire story. When I finally decided to sit down and read the events that occurred and Ted Kennedy's actions and lies, I was simply horrified. I couldn't believe that this man was a senator. I couldn't believe this man was not in prison for his actions that evening 40 years ago.
If you are in generation X, as I am, I suggest you research this case and read all about what really happened that evening. It is nothing that you could ever imagine.
Ted Kennedy was at a party and then left. He was driving with Mary Jo in his car. There is about an hour discrepancy in when he left and when the accident occurred. Who knows what he was doing in between this time frame. He has never said. The car went off a bridge because Ted was drunk. He managed to escape and leave Mary Jo. He went back to the party to ask for help from his friends. They went back and tried to get Mary Jo out of the car. After awhile they all sat in the car trying to decide what to do. It was at that time that Ted Kennedy got out of the car and swam towards the shore, went back to his hotel room, that he previously booked, and went to bed.
The friends went back to the house where the party was and cleaned up. They assumed that Ted had gone to fetch the police but when they heard nothing by the next day, they went to the hotel where Kennedy was and found him laughing and talking with the other guests. They then took Ted to the police and made him make a statement.
That is the story in a nut shell.
Originally, Ted Kennedy wanted to say that Mary Jo borrowed the car and was driving herself. He went back to the hotel to act like he had no idea what happened. The fact that he never went to the police right away is proof of what a scum bag this man is.
Could you imagine if this were your daughter? It turns out that she did NOT drown! She was breathing from an air bubble that was in the car for what has been speculated, about 2 hours.
Even if it was one hour, he had an hour to do something, anything, and Kennedy did nothing. He could only think about himself. He didn't care about the life of an innocent woman. Let's take this even further, let's say she died right away, he nor his friends, Gargan and Markham, went to the police that night. None of them did. They all deserve blame.
Now, searching the internet for the once great site where I read all this information originally (I can no longer find it), I came across the Democrat Underground site. You will never believe the complete morons that are actually on this site, unless you actually visit it and read what it says.
The original post was by someone who seemed quite normal. Just a person that wanted to get other people's opinions about the case, since this is the anniversary of the accident. Most of the responses were absolutely appalling and written by folks who clearly never even bothered to study the case. A bunch of mindless drowns who can't think for themselves and actually resort to conspiracies to explain this situation "away."
Let's see.... they killed JFK. They killed RFK.......Anybody ever consider the fact that "someone" might have been trying for a "sweep" and eliminate the last Kennedy brother before he became a threat (perhaps by calling for investigations into the murder of his brothers).
And hadn't Teddy already survived a plane crash by this time?
:tinfoilhat: Tinfoil? Not really by much, in this case.
Really? How the hell does this nimrod suppose this was a conspiracy? It's unbelievable.
In an effort to be fair, there was a poster that actually DID have a brain and their response was this...
This didn't "happen" to Teddy. It happened to a young girl names Mary Jo. She died. Stop acting like Ted Kennedy was the victim here. If a Repub had driven his car off a bridge with a girl trapped inside, then failed to report the accident for many, many hours, everyone here would be calling for prison. Instead, Ted Kennedy's reputation was hardly destroyed. He stayed out of jail, and he has been in the Senate for 40 years since. Seems to me, his life has been just fine. Mary Jo Kopechne, however, has been dead for 40 years.
Furthermore, if it had been a set-up, how could "they" have predicted that the girl would die? Or that Ted wouldn't report the accident? No matter the cause of the accident, he was responsible for his actions afterward. There really isn't much of an excuse not to have reported it immediately, with rescue/recovery efforts started ASAP.
Also, a lot of folks just simply responded by saying, "Who cares?"
Who cares? Gee, I'm sure Mary Jo's parents care, her family, her friends, the peoples' lives she touched, oh, and the people that have compassion for human life... that's who cares. Some people don't like to see others get away with murder or, at the very least vehicular manslaughter.
This has NOTHING to even do with politics. If this jerk was a Republican, I would feel the EXACT same way. I don't understand how anyone can see this another way. What he did was wrong. Wrong has nothing to do with politics. Wrong is wrong anyway you slice it. I could care less whether he has a "D" or an "R" behind his name.
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