Posted on 01/13/2008 5:02:01 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Could a description of Mary Jo Kopechne's death in a car accident possibly not mention Ted Kennedy till five paragraphs later?
Yes.
That's how the Times Leader, the Wilkes Barre, PA based newspaper reported the passing away at age 89 of Mary Kopechne's mother Gwen, a local resident.
Here's the opening paragraph [emphasis added]:
A mother who lost her daughter in a well-publicized automobile accident in Massachusetts nearly 39 years ago was remembered Saturday as a caring woman who loved talking, drinking coffee and making pancakes for breakfast.
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“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”
– Charles Pierce in a January 5 Boston Globe Magazine article. Kopechne drowned while trapped in Kennedy’s submerged car off Chappaquiddick Island in July 1969, an accident Kennedy did not report for several hours.
It was not an accident - it was murder ...
And Americans have paid a big price for his freedom to hold elected office ever since.
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May Mrs. Gwen Kopechne rest in peace. I’m sure that it was very difficult in her remaining years living with the knowledge that her beautiful daughter, Mary Jo, was murdered by Ted Kennedy.
That neckbrace amazed me. “I’m the victim” Kennedy.
The voters in Mass are the dumbest humans on this planet.
If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be President today
It floats.
The way our body is built, we'd be surprised if it didn't. The sheet of flat steel that goes underneath every Volkswagen keeps out water, as well as dirt and salt and other nasty things that can eat away at the underside of a car. So it's watertight at the bottom. And everybody knows it's easier to shut the door on a Volkswagen after you've rolled down the window a little.
That proves it's practically airtight on top. If it was a boat, we could call it the Water Bug. But it's not a boat, it's a car.
And, like Mary Jo Kopechne, it's only 99 and 44/100 percent pure. So it won't stay afloat forever. Just long enough. Poor Teddy. If he'd been smart enough to buy a Volkswagen, he never would have gotten into hot water.
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***The voters in Mass are the dumbest humans on this planet.***
And they still re-elect a man who could not hit a bridge with an 8 ft wide car.
Pitiful. And I still won’t vote for someone from Mass for Prez.
Kopechne suffocated.
Kennedy accidentally forgot to act like a decent human being, and accidentally left her to drown so he could save himself from bad PR.
The way the Wilkes-Barre story today muffles Kennedy’s crime is unforgivable. What were the stupid reporter and editor thinking? “Poor Ted Kennedy has suffered enough”? I’m surprised they bothered to mention Kennedy at all. “Oh yeah, by the way, Ted Kennedy was involved.”
We can rest assured that there’s a special place in hell waiting for Teddy K.In fact,given the records of various Kennedy males (women paralyzed,raped,murdered,an under-age girl diddled,heroin possession,etc) I’ll wager that that special place is designed to hold a number of Kennedys.
How Mary Jo's parents must have suffered over the years. I don't know if it's true, but I once heard the Kennedy's paid her parents only $25,ooo at the time to shut them up. It's too bad the parents never did a TV interview to trash the bum.
My vote for Chutzpah of the Year 2003 Award. “If only he hadn’t killed her she’d have been a real fan.” Apparently Mr. Pierce was serious. I don’t think these people live on the same planet as I do, and if they do I wish they didn’t.
I'd call that special place, "Camelot from Hell"
The PT 109 can be found, but they just can’t seem to find the 69 Olds.
The bridge was quite narrow (one lane) and short. It had a couple of 2 x 10's as a guard rail. Apparently, Kennedy was fleeing a summer constable (who was not in pursuit, and had no arrest or summons authority) when he hit the narrow wooden bridge at over 60 mph.
I think everyone is missing the point here. The point is not what happened in 1969. We all know what happened then. The point is what happened today — a newspaper is covering for the Kennedys by transforming “Chappaquiddick” into “a well-known automobile accident.”
***Read “Senatorial Privlege” by Leo Damore. ***
I have and I also have driven over many a one lane bridge in the middle of the night with no problems.
**Kopechne suffocated.**
I believe you ar correct. The car was upside down and she was in an air bubble trapped in the car. She lingered a long time till the air ran out then suffocated while Teddy agonized on how to save his political career.
Okay, try it after half a dozen drinks, doing 70 mph fleeing an imaginary cop with a 28 year old woman sitting next to you and your drunk wife seething alone at home.
Hope you don't think I'm defending EMK or the Massachusetts electorate. His electability is explained by perverse tribalism and misplaced sentimentality.
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Thank you devolve.
Ironically this quote is probably accurate. Most of Bill Clinton's victims still voted for the guy and are staunch democrats. I'm betting Kopechne's parents still voted for Kennedy. Yeah, they may have killed our daughter, but at least he isn't a REPUBLICAN.
I vaguely recall reading that he had a neckbrace from an earlier plane crash.
Maybe he recycled it. Lots of savvy sales and marketing people file away things to form a "connection".
Why not pull out the neckbrace?
Oh, and running joke is that since Ted has been in so many accidents on so many modes of transportation, the only one left is a train, and if you see him getting on the same train as you, get off.
I read somewhere that the Kopechnes still supported Ted for most of their life but in their later years finally realized what happened and changed their attitude. Maybe they read the book by Damore.
Another victim of "Kennedy waterboarding".
“And I still won’t vote for someone from Mass for Prez.”
DITTO!
Hell-a-lot.
“***The voters in Mass are the dumbest humans on this planet.***And I still won’t vote for someone from Mass for Prez.”
Stupid leftist Mass dumkoffs who keep electing Ted (and I recall he couldn’t fly a plane before he couldn’t drive a car) also elected MR Gov. This Mass electorate has not elected a conservative as Governor either.
Just like millions of babies ripped screaming from their mothers wombs, Kopechne's death is meaningless to them. It is the cult of personality that moves them. They have no soul, these Leftist sycophants. If Hildebeast or Hussein Obama ripped the heart from a puppy while it lay submissive under their hand, they'd rationalize it as for the greater good of the movement. If Barney Frank were videotaped raping and sodomizing a 10 yr old, they'd rationalize it.
The Left has been described as suffering from mental illness. I'd beg to differ. It "suffers" from demonic possession. The Left is quite probably either the vanguard of the foretold Anti-Christ or it is, collectively, the Biblical Anti-Christ come to fulfill the prophesied last war of Armageddon.
Truer words were never spoken...
All I can say is 'wow'. Rest in peace, Mary Jo and Gwen...
Thanks for the ping, FRiend. I'll ping others here...
Could a description of Mary Jo Kopechne's death in a car accident possibly not mention Ted Kennedy till five paragraphs later?
Yes.
That's how the Times Leader, the Wilkes Barre, PA-based newspaper reported the passing away at age 89 of Mary Kopechne's mother Gwen, a local resident.
Here's the opening paragraph [emphasis added]:
A mother who lost her daughter in a well-publicized automobile accident in Massachusetts nearly 39 years ago was remembered Saturday as a caring woman who loved talking, drinking coffee and making pancakes for breakfast...
I call him every anniversary. When they answered last time, I was gurgling water.
Oh you are a pissa.
Tireless, yet he was too tired to help her out of the car.
In fairness to the obituary writer, he wanted the obituary to memorialize Mrs. Kopechne, not her daughter’s homicide. I will never forgive or forget what Ted Kennedy did to her daughter, but I hope we can allow Mary Jo’s mother an identity separate from that horrible man.
I would guess that in today's dollars that would be around 500 thousand. The Kopechnes used the money to build a house in the Poconos.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19192710&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6
I can see your point.
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