[FormerACLUmember]

I have been to Chappaquidick. Teddy had to walk miles past large numbers of occupied houses (with phones), take a ferry back to Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard, and spent the entire night on the phone looking for a patsy to take the fall.

While Mary Joe struggled for air in the shallow waters.

Even the liberal Park Rangers on Chappaquidick say Kennedy was a murderer.

This “brain damaged” lie is completely preposterous.

[Ole Okie]

Teddy had to walk miles past large numbers of occupied houses (with phones), take a ferry back to Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard, and spent the entire night on the phone looking for a patsy to take the fall.

OK, I think you have the straight of it.

Remember the original story: that Teddy dove to exhaustion into Poucha Pond trying to rescue Mary Jo?

Of course, the weakness of that story (and time-line) was the last ferry would have already have run by the time that Teddy essayed to return to Edgartown.

So what's the solution to that quandary? Simple. The official story at the time was that a completely exhausted Teddy swan the channel to Edgartown.

That was totally unbelievable, but the news types swallowed it whole.