Posted on 08/30/2010 5:27:21 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
This is one story that U.S. News & World Report's Washington Whispers might want to keep to a low whisper or risk even more ridicule than what they are already receiving. Paul Bedard, writing in Washington Whispers, quotes Kennedy's biographer and former girlfriend who claim that Ted was really an innocent victim of the Chappaquiddick accident. Here is Kennedy biographer Burton Hersh making the case for Kennedy as merely a lousy driver:
Now, a year after Kennedy died, his lifelong biographer Burton Hersh, armed with fresh interviews with Kennedy's mistress at the time, tells Whispers that the whole July 1969 episode should have been handled as a simple crash, leaving the senator's legacy untainted. "It was a car accident," he says. "Ted was a terrible driver. He never paid much attention to where he was going."
"He took a tremendous blow on the head," says Hersh. In interviews following the crash, Kennedy displayed confusion and amnesia, he says.
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the original US NWR story. Laughable.
http://politics.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2010/08/30/rewriting-history-on-kennedys-chappaquiddick-accident
About every week or so a photo comes across that is worth saving. Haven’t seen that one before and it’s definitely a keeper. If he had a soul at all he must and should have been haunted.
Let's not forget JFK Jr. and his passengers.
The rule: If you are female, never ride in a vehicle controlled by a male Kennedy.
The strange thing is, once you have a major fire, and start talking to people about it, is how many people you know WELL will tell you they have had the same.
After my fire my best friend told me she nearly died in one as a child, and several others of my friends and neighbors told me similar stories.
Unless someone dies or is burned, it recedes into the past and you don’t talk about it - but at the time you think you’ll never get over it.
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