The poor woman had to suffer great humiliation after the murder or at least manslaughter of Mary Jo Koepeckne, by her husband, Ted Kennedy.
She is 87, god bless her.
Posted on 12/27/2023 11:09:59 AM PST by DallasBiff
oan Bennett, former wife of Senator Ted Kennedy, was born on September 9, 1936, in Manhattan. Bennett married Ted Kennedy on November 29, 1958. Her private struggle with miscarriages and alcoholism became public after she was arrested for drunk driving in 1974. For decades Bennett wrestled with sobriety. She is currently in treatment under her children's care.
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The poor woman had to suffer great humiliation after the murder or at least manslaughter of Mary Jo Koepeckne, by her husband, Ted Kennedy.
She is 87, god bless her.
Her fault for getting knocked up! < /SARC>
Joan Kennedy, Kitty Dukakis, Betty Ford...
Notice a pattern here?
At 87, if you haven’t licked alcoholism, chances of beating it are between slim and none...and Slim just left town.
Was she still married to Ted when he and Chris Dodd had their famous “waitress sandwich” at the La Brasserie restaurant in DC?
If I was a woman and married into the Kennedy family, I would be a lush also.
Great screen name—you did get your President—too bad he and his brothers forgot who their friends were...
;-)
I never thought she would have lived this long.
Even back in the 1980’s, any mention of Joan Kennedy was usually proceeded by the term “The long suffering..”.
I doubt if Joan and Ethel Kennedy have much correspondence.
Ethel was all about public image and appearance. Not placing too great a value on showing empathy for the emotionally downtrodden.
does it matter at 87? my motto is after 75 do whatever you want
Is that wrong?
Yes. I feel sympathy for nearly all wives of the Kennedy clan.
Can you imagine being married to that fat, disgusting, self-absorbed pig?
I read a book years ago called “Senatorial Privilege”, and it was a thick tome that, front to back, covered every angle of the Chappaquiddick incident.
What a cowardly, disgusting, slime ball of a male. Getting drunk and driving off the bridge is bad. Leaving her in the car to suffocate and drown is worse. But then, his lying about it to try to save his political skin was nauseating.
At one point, as they discussed the issue during that time frame before he jumped in the water and went back to his hotel, he suggested that they say she was driving, not him.
In all of this, I did find respect for Joe Gargan, the guy the Kennedy Clan had “adopted” to be Ted’s watchdog, look out for him, and clean up after his messes. Gargan wouldn’t go along with any of it, and kept insisting that Kennedy go immediately to the police, which Kennedy said he would do, but never did until the next day.
Gargan found out fully just who the Kennedys really were in that incident. He became a non-person to them.
Interestingly, I wanted to buy an audiobook version of “Senatorial Privilege”, but could never find it. I eventually discovered that the name of the book had been changed from “Senatorial Privilege” to “Chappaquiddick: Power, Privilege, and the Ted Kennedy Cover-Up”.
Apparently, the original publisher, Random House, backed out of the contract with Leo D’Amore (the author) after only a short publishing interval for “unknown reasons” and he had to have the book re-printed with someone else under a different title at some later point.
If you have never read this book, I highly recommend it. Very well written, and nearly impossible to put down.
On a related note: I recently purchased a stellar documentary “Apollo 11” which has a boatload of 70mm film footage I had never seen, crystal clear. Just awesome. But in it, there is an interval where someone is talking to another person conversationally about the Chappaquiddick Incident, which hit the papers the same day as the moon landing.
JFK Jr. was bumped off. He was going to enter politics as a republican. It would have been all over for the democrats.
Probably Ted’s sister, Rosemary, who they lobotomized to keep her out of the public eye.
I will be looking for that used book.
Sounds interesting without being overly speculative.
Lol! “What brand of Vodka was it?” Asked the Judge.
Yes. NOT speculative in ANY sense. ALL fact. He looks at ALL aspects of this, everything from the issue with Kennedy’s driver license to the autopsy.
well Hillary needed a seat to run for
Hillary Clinton
She had to drive...was too drunk to walk.
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