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Posted on 07/26/2005 12:59:12 AM PDT by lunarbicep
I had no idea...I'll bet most people think like me..She died from drowning...How awful those last few moments, when she kept hoping help would come but knowing she was close to death...Why do the people of mass keep voting for that slug,kennedy?????????
from Ted's televised statement to the nation on 7 - 25 - 69:
On the weekend of July 18th, I was on Martha's Vinyard Island participating with my nephew, Joe Kennedy, as for 30 years my family has participated in the annual Edgartown Sailing Regatta. Only reasons of health prevented my wife from accompanying me.
On Chappaquiddick Island off Martha's Vinyars, I attended on Friday evening, July 18th, a cookout I had encouraged and helped sponsor for a devoted group of Kennedy campaign secretaries. When I left the party around 11:15 PM, I was accompanied by one of these girls, Miss Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was one of the most devoted members of the staff of Senator Robert Kennedy. She worked for him for four years and was broken up over his death. For this reason and because she was such a gentle, kind and idealistic person, all of us tried to help her feel that she still had a home with the Kennedy family.
for the entire statement:
http://www.ytedk.com/tvstatement.htm
Hopefully on this alcoholic gasbags tombstone we will see the words "Murdering Lier" spraypainted on a regular basis. Hell, if I know where they plant his piano case coffin I might just do it myself.
His place in history is assured for the incident.
"...only a couple of the girls at the party were attractive."
Beer-goggles...or in Teddy's case, Scotch-goggles.
Well to give the old boozer/sleaze his due, he did pick the most attractive one.
"...he did pick the most attractive one."
It's because he's a Kennedy. He didn't want to end up with a hag like Hillary or Botox Pelosi...bad for the Kennedy reputation.
There were also doubts about the way Kopechne died. Dr. Donald Mills of Edgartown, wrote on the death certificate: "death by drowning". However, Gene Frieh, the undertaker, told reporters that death "was due to suffocation rather than drowning". John Farrar, the diver who removed Kopechne from the car, claimed she was "too buoyant to be full of water". It is assumed that she died from drowning, although her parents filed a petition preventing an autopsy.
Wonder if NPR will devote a segment to MJK's 65th ..?
I love that quote. I'm surprised Pierce was able to pry his lips off of Kennedy's butt for long enough to sit down at the keyboard and compose it. ;)
I just did yet another google image search looking for some other photo of Mary Jo other than that yearbook one. Has anyone ever seen any other photo of her?
thats the only picture I've ever seen of her
The mean -spiritedness publicly displayed by Kennedy since Chappaquidick, give further testament that it was no accident.
"Anyone who had even the slightest concern for someone who may be in imminent peril would immediately go for the Police."
You hit the nail on the head. She was expendable. Plain and simple. An idle rich guy's plaything to be discarded or denied at his whim. I do not understand how even a casual observer of the Kennedys, regardless of your political persuasion, would allow their children (boys or girls) to become involved in their campaigns or associate with them at any level. Campaign workers, staffers, baby-sitters - it is open season/no-limit on all of them and they are all disposable.
"Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law?
Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?"
- Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
Buy it. Read it. Have your children, grandchildren, grandparents, nieces, nephews, brothers, sisters, cousins, friends and casual acquaintances read it.
After the delivery of $1,000,000 to their house.
After the delivery of $1,000,000 to their house.
Now, I'll have to kill you after I tell you this, so you may not want to read it.
Good ole Teddy was feeling his gin and oats, and the Kennedy boys never took NO for an answer. They were used to taking the pick of the litter, and those picked were usually thrilled.
Teddy found a stray sheep in Mary Jo. She was a GOOD GIRL, and nothing pleases wolves more than plundering a sheep with virgin wool.
Mary Jo had been stalled just long enough to miss the ferry back to the mainland. Good OLE Teddy offered her a ride. He told her he could get her to the ferry on time.
His being one of the big K's and being older, she trusted him.
He headed out with her in his car, then he turned off onto a bumpy road that led to a deserted beach area.
Mary Jo complained about not going to catch the ferry, and Teddy told her this was a shortcut.
When they got to the beach, Teddy told her they missed the ferry, so they might as well get out and relax on the beach, maybe take a swim.
She didn't want to, and Teddy kept pushing. He started man-handling her, in a drunk attempt at petting and fondling.
She kept fighting, and he started telling her how rich and important he was, and that she should be dying to make out with him.
She started slapping out at him, and he lost his temper. He choked her to death.
He drove back along the side road, parked the car somewhere off the main road, and walked back to the hotel to get help.
He got in touch with a his lawyer and 'the cleanup man'. The cleanup man went back, got the car, and decided to run it off the bridge, and make the death appear to be an accident.
The rest of the story you know.
"I just did yet another google image search looking for some other photo of Mary Jo other than that yearbook one. Has anyone ever seen any other photo of her?"
Mary Jo who? As far as the American Left is concerned, no such woman ever existed. If the incident had occurred 25 years earlier, the Kennedys probably could have covered-up the whole thing and, as time passed, referred to it as a mean-spirited, right-wing urban myth. I would not expect to find many pictures.
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