This is an outright lie by this reporter. Kennedy never claimed he didn't know the woman was in his back seat. Of course he knew, he left the party with him, got in his car and they drove off together. After the car went in the creek Kennedy claimed he repeatedly dove under water to rescue her and failed to reach her. Rather than going to the first house near the water, which happened to be the volunteer fire capt. and head of the scuba team, Kennedy instead walked about a mile back to the party and took his friend and cousin aside and whispered in their ear that there had been an accident and that Mary Jo was trapped in the car. Horrified the two men took Kennedy, piled in their car and drove back to the scene. There the two friends dove into the water while Kennedy looked on from the shore. After they were unsuccessful Kennedy later jumped from the car and swan to the mainland, supposedly to report the accident, or so his friends thought!
Instead Kennedy headed back to his hotel, changed into dry clothes, went out on his balcony and called out to a hotel worker an inquiry about the time (to establish his alibi that he was at the hotel no doubt) Kennedy then went to bed, arose in the morning, put on his yachting clothes and went walking towards town. While passing a friends house who was out on the porch having coffee Kennedy stopped to chat about the sailing regatta later in the day and how he was looking forward to it. It was then that he happened to look over at the landing and noticed a tow truck and police car getting on a ferry and he knew that his car had been discovered at the bottom of the lake. So he excused himself from coffee and chit chat and made his way over the police dept to report and accident. Some 12 hours after the accident had occured.
Now my memory may be a little fuzzy since I'm going from memory of having read the book, Senatorial Privledge written by his cousin Joe, the same man that was there that night and helped by trying to dive under the water. He could no longer hold his silence and helped write the book after 2o years. So this reporter is either lying by claiming Kennedy's innocence in that he didn't know there was a woman in the car or he's a poor excuse for a reporter.
I guess what really matters though is a least Kennedy has never been accused of sending an indecent IM to another adult male. Now that would really be horrible in comparison!!
Thanks for that. That happened when I was much younger and I never really got all the details put together like that.
Disgusting.
You left out that Teddy was drunk enough to want to keep away from the police that night. That's why he went to the hotel for the night.