Posted on 07/18/2006 9:54:03 AM PDT by ncountylee
Late on the night of July 18, 1969, a car went off a bridge on Martha’s Vineyard. With a young senator from Massachusetts, Edward Kennedy, at the wheel, the Oldsmobile sank into the water beneath the Dike Bridge.
In a sequence of events that instantly became famous, Senator Kennedy escaped from the submerged vehicle and swam to shore. By 2:30 a.m. he had made his way back to his hotel in Edgartown, where he was sighted in the lobby. He made 17 phone calls to family members and associates. But not until 10 hours after the accident did he call the police to tell them about the car crash—and the other person in the car, who had died.
Senator Kennedy had not been alone. Riding alongside him had been a young woman, not his wife, named Mary Jo Kopechne. She had been sitting next to him as they drove away from a party, and as they crossed Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island the accident ended her life. It would haunt the rest of Kennedy’s career.
After President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and then the killing of Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy was regarded as the next standard-bearer of America’s foremost political family. With the 1972 presidential election approaching, many, including some of President Richard M. Nixon’s advisers, expected the youngest Kennedy brother to make a bid for the White House. As the details of the events at Chappaquiddick slowly emerged, however, they significantly weakened his prospects.
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The Senator's office just hung up on me while I was wishing the Senator all the worst.
What happened there was that a criminal, guilty of man-slaughter, drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident, letting a young woman drown, while protecting his own miserable criminal butt through his political connections.
The fat, drunk woman killer still walks the streets today. Amazing what money can do.
The entire Kennedy family needs to just go away.
William Kennedy Smith who got away with rape with his uncles help lives near me.
When idiot Kennedyfiles call Bush a murderer I want to ask "So should he have gotten the troops pregnant and drove them off a bridge one by one? You think that type of murder is okay"
I just called myself, but got a busy signal.
17 phone calls and 10 hours before the police were allerted. That alone should have sent him to the slammer.
The police diver testified that she had an air bubble that would have lasted 2 hours. The Coward of Chappaquidick!!
you are falling down on the job, failing to remind us of this!
If I had been driving I would still be in jail.
ping
Is there a statute of limitations on the crime of murder?
Murder, most foul.
How long before Patches claims a life?
MaryJo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
Bob: Is there a statute of limitations on the crime of murder?
No.
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