Posted on 07/19/2004 10:08:38 AM PDT by pilgrim
We were on The Vineyard last week and went to Chappaquiddick to see "the bridge". There can be no doubt what Fat Ted had in mind. That bridge leads to one thing....the beach and is really far from civilization.
His lawyers Datum,Dickum and Dunkum served him well. He should have been tried and CONVICTED.
I'm sure he was going for some "midnight delight" on the beach with the gal.
...Delamore makes the case that he was fleeing from a summer constable, who, though in a police uniform, had no arrest powers and would likely only have tut-tutted about a married middle-aged Senator out with a young woman late a night. Kennedy had offered to drive Mary-Joe to the Edgartown ferry (it's about a 100-yard wide channel), apparently stopped and was approached by a uniformed summer constable, who thought he was lost tourist. (Chappaquick is featureless and the roads are poorly marked.) Kennedy panicked and took off at 60 MPH, and vaulted off the narrow Dyke Bridge, which at the time had no guard rails, only a pair of 2 x 10's nailed flat on top of one another. (The new Dyke Bridge has a 3' high guard rail constructed of 8 x 8 timbers suppored by a 1" steel cable running the length of the bridge and anchored at both ends.)
It looks like a Delta 88 to me. 1Oldpro has a sweet idea there
I did the same last summer. No way ANYONE can mistake DIKE road (gravel, bumpy, etc) with the main road. He knew where he was going.
Kennedy would panic at an officer - he was in a hurry to get to the beach - not the ferry. any idiot who was ever there knows the difference between the main road and a very bumpy/gravel Dike Road..
See photo on this thread
It's time to move on. It has been decades since a phone call was a dime.
Sounds like the city council should hold a vote to name the new bridge after Mary Jo Kopechne (e.g. "The Mary Jo Kopechne Memorial Bridge").
It may be sad, but it's also pathetic and shameful.
If it were anyone but Ted Kennedy that did it, they would be in jail. Don't confuse the issue. This is not about Mary Jo. It is all about Ted.
"There is no statute of limitations on murder."
How about robbery also? Every day Fat Boy gets up thinking about how he can get more of our money!
Mary Jo deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom for saving the United States from the disaster of having Ted as President.
I believe that the law in Massachusetts was such that anyone involved in a vehicular death was AUTOMATICALLY charged with manslaughter. Except that Kennedy wasn't.
I lived on Cape Cod from 1991 to 1997 and was friendly with a guy who had been a "substitute" judge when Kennedy killed Kopechne. The regular judge - Boyle - was on vacation, I believe in NH or VT. My friend was called and told to be ready to go to Edgartown for the proceedings. Boyle cut short his vacation and returned to Edgartown in time, so that my friend was not needed. He really didn't want to be involved because of the hyper-political nature of the case.
My friend was a Republican. Boyle was a DemocRAT. I wonder if things would have been different if Boyle hadn't returned.
That could mean a "splash" of water to the gallon of scotch. it's too bad he didn't drive Marilyn home when his brothers were done with her.
Quite possibly. Any judge worth his salt would have enforced the law. Boyle sounds like an old Kennedy Friend.
18, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy drove his 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 ... Kennedy had a
history of convictions and fines for reckless ... Ted Kennedy's Driving Record. ...
www.wordiq.com/definition/Edward_M._Kennedy - 16k -
Nice work man!
I thought he drove off a bridge, but there's no bridge in that picture.
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