Chappaquiddicks unanswered questions -

Jewish World Review ^ | July 22, 2004 | Jeff Jacoby

[UnklGene]

Chappaquiddick's unanswered questions -

By Jeff Jacoby - July 22, 2004

This column ran in The Boston Globe 10 years ago, 25 years after the 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Ted Kennedy's car. This week, therefore, marks the 35th anniversary of her death. Kennedy will be honored by the Democratic Party when its national convention meets in Boston next week.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | "I've answered all the questions." — Senator Edward Kennedy, July 8, 1994 on the tragedy at Chappaquiddick

Twenty-five years ago tomorrow, on July 22, 1969, Mary Jo Kopechne was buried at St. Vincent's Cemetery in Plymouth, Penn. She had died three days earlier, pinned underwater when Senator Kennedy's car swerved off Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island.

Within hours of Kopechne's death, a Kennedy aide named Dun Gifford flew a chartered plane into Edgartown (the Martha's Vineyard town that Chappaquiddick is a part of), with orders to get the body off the island. Before Massachusetts officials had even decided whether to perform an autopsy to settle the cause of death, Kopechne's remains were in Pennsylvania — beyond the state's jurisdiction.

Did Kennedy order Gifford to remove the body...?

[bannie]

We've reached a horrible time in which the People know about the obscenities of the Kennedys/clintons/burgers--and still allow them to go unpunished.

The pot will boil.

[UnklGene]

Mary Jo Kopechne

[Radix]

In 1965 at the St. Patrick's day parade in South Boston when I was about 9 years old, I shook Ted Kennedy's hand.

I still try to wash thoroughly when I think about it.

[SubMareener]

A&E did an "Investigative reports" on this. They came up with the most likely scenario: Teddy puts the moves on Mary Joe. She is appalled and kicks him out of the car. She doesn't know the Island, and drives off the bridge. Meanwhile, Teddy goes back to the party. He gets a ride to the ferry and goes back to his hotel. His aids go looking for Mary Joe. They find her, rush to the hotel to tell Teddy. Teddy concocts the "I tried to save her" story because it is politically less damaging than the "she kicked me out of the car" story.

[hoosiermama]

Shame they didn't run the article next week.....

[Baynative]

The liberal people of Massachusettes know they are represented by a murderer. They are comfortable with that.

[Xenalyte]

Turned down a Kennedy? Not bloody likely.

[goldstategop]

Massachusetts is the Twilight Zone of American politics. Its non judgmental liberalism allowed Uncle Ted to have a flourishing career as a U.S Senator and now its given us his political sibling, John F*ckin, who libeled American G.I's fighting in Southeast Asia as "killers." And its bequeathed us a party that never asks questions when things go wrong on its watch.

[Xenalyte]

That's the part I can't figure out. Why the HELL do Massachusites put up with that?

[True Capitalist]

Upcoming Massachusetts DemocRAT National Convention Bump!

[goldstategop]

If you're the 9 out 10 people in Massachusetts who knows the only game in town is the Democratic Party, you'll understand.

[Xenalyte]

Fortunately, I am from and in Texas, so I'll never have to contemplate such hideousness.

[AIC]

The only problem wit this is that it has already been established that Mary Jo was not driving.

[Biblebelter]

This forum started out as the Whitewater forum, dedicated to not letting crimes in high places go unnoticed. With that in mind, this article is required reading. Let us not forget Mary Jo Kopechne, Mary Mahoney, Eileen Wellstone, and all the victims of the Kennedys and the Kennedy wannabe.

[leprechaun9]

I always have wondered, Which of the Kennedy kids did Teddie the Whale take the rap for?

[SubMareener]

That is not the analysis of the data in the A&E report. They concluded that she was in the driver's seat when the car went into the water.

[rmh47]

That is not the analysis of the data in the A&E report. They concluded that she was in the driver's seat when the car went into the water.

Maybe her head was in the driver's seat?

[1066AD]

Eileen Wellstone ?

[combat_boots]

For the Money. The Big Dig is The Most Expensive Public Works Project Ever On The Face Of The Planet. Period.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

In her brief life and by her early death, she prevented Ted Kennedy from ever becomming president.

[beethovenfan]

I have a question for Teddy -

How much of your old man's bootleg liquor money did it
take to keep Mary Jo's parents quiet??

[UnklGene]

Mary Jo Kopechne

[Biblebelter]

She was raped by Clinton when he was at Oxford. It was essentially covered up by a state department official. This was reported by Capitol Hill Blue which was edited by a man named Thompson. A good reporter who had retired and was running that web site. It was much discussed here at this forum during the impeachment proceedings. The criminality of the Clinton crowd is unbelievable and it is documented here in the archives.

[oyez]

Time to re-issue this little gem.
The start of the Democratic skate party.

[rmh47]

In her brief life and by her early death, she prevented Ted Kennedy from ever becomming president.

How true. And so, though it was not her intention, her life and sacrifice were not in vain.

[Coleus]

YtedK

[Critter]

If you ever saw them drive, you'd know why.

Dumb and dumber.

[1066AD]

Elizabeth I think.. anyway the last name threw me, was thinking about the Senator that crashed. Thanks.

[henderson field]

"...she prevented ted kennedy from ever becoming President..."
Now that's something to think about.

[HighWheeler]

Put a Kennedy in command of a vehicle, add water, and innocent people are going to die.

[itsahoot]

Fortunately, I am from and in Texas, so I'll never have to contemplate such hideousness.

Well, there was this guy named Johnson...........

[Xenalyte]

I know five limericks that start like that.

[Intolerant in NJ]

She is appalled and kicks him out of the car. She doesn't know the Island, and drives off the bridge...I thought it was more like they were spotted by a local policeman turning on to the dirt road and thought they were being followed by him, so Teddy jumped out of the car and hid in some bushes while she drove on - the idea that she was actually in the car alone does seem to be pretty well accepted now, though.....

[SubMareener]

A&E found an Island resident who remembered hearing a car driving rapidly around the island, then down the road to the bridge that night.

[SubMareener]

Here is the tape if anyone is interested:

		Chappaquiddick (Investigative Reports)
		Interviews with police, Kennedy insiders and journalists who have worked the story for years make this the definitive portrait of the accident that changed American politics.   1 Volume Set.50 Minutes. Availability: In Stock, ships in 2-3 business days

[Mark17]

The pot will boil.

But how long before it boils over?

[MERCEE4U]

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[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Why the HELL do Massachusites put up with that?

Did you ever know someone who would fawn all over someone because they were rich? Blinded by the glitz and glamour. That must describe a large potion of the population of the state of Massachusetts.