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?????????
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.