Mary Jo Kopechne remembered, July 21st, 1969

you don't see the news covering this, do you? ^ | july 21, 2008 | self

[haole]

We should every year remember the true story of Mary Jo's death, and how it revealed the true "character" of one Edward M Kennedy.

[AZLiberty]

Shame on Ted Kennedy, shame on the Massachusetts judicial system, and shame on Massachusetts voters for keeping him in office all these years.

[A.A. Cunningham]

[oh8eleven]

RIP Mary Jo.
21 July ('68) is also the day I left RVN.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

criminal manslaughter

Steve Smith, the Kennedy family fixer, was passing out money like cookies on the 22nd.

[A. Patriot]

Thanks for finding the ad. I was having a hard time finding a legible example. (It was of course a spoof ad from National Lampoon. VW sued for using its trademark).

[LiberConservative]

I heard Rush Limbaugh say, “Nuclear power has killed fewer Americans than Ted Kennedy’s car.”

Rush is wrong on this one. At least three Americans have died in nuclear reactor accidents. One was in Arco, Idaho in 1961. Their bodies were so radioactive they had to be buried in lead-lined coffins.

[McBuff]

[Mark was here]

Nice Rush quote.

[ronnie raygun]

Here we have a murderer in congress for all these years that has gotten a pass and all who deal with him over the years also have blood on thier hands. It won’t be long now! Mary Jo is at the gate waiting for this mess to show up, and he knows it!

[chimera]

The SL-1 reactor at the NRTS in Idaho (as it was known then) was a prototype test reactor for the military, to be used in remote locations where conventional power generation was limited. It was not a civilian power reactor. The casualties you refer to were the reactor crew made up of military personnel.

Rush's bromide refers to the safety record of commercial, civilian nuclear energy in this country. The only fatalities I know of there were non-nuclear related, such as the one accident a few years ago in Virginia (I think) where some maintenance workers walked into a live steam leak (basically cuts you in half). There have been some electrical accidents as well. But those were not unique to the nuclear aspects of the plant.

[A. Patriot]

for years I had a bumper sticker on the rear of my pickup truck that read, “Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more people than my gun”.

[MissEdie]

And he was such a gentleman when they got to that bridge it took him 9 hours to open the car door for her.

[guido911]

I know how this forum tries to stay above the personal attacks at certain times, but when that POS Teddy dies, it will be hard for me not to do to him what the left did to Tony Snow and Jesse Helms.

[Dick Bachert]

Yes, a small statue on The Mall would be appropriate. Next to the kiosk selling THESE:

This reprobate got 4 decades that his COWARDICE denied Mary Jo.

[BILL_C]

At least three Americans have died in nuclear reactor accidents. One was in Arco, Idaho in 1961. Their bodies were so radioactive they had to be buried in lead-lined coffins.

That was at SL-1 but it was military. How about “United States Civilian Nuclear power has killed fewer Americans than Ted Kennedy’s car.”

[alpo]

I saw show on A&E or Discovery a couple of years ago that concluded Teddy wasn’t in the car. They stopped after going past a local cop and Teddy got out and swam a mile or so back to his hotel. Mary Jo drove back and went off the bridge as she was not familiar with the area and was used to driving her VW.

The doors were closed on the car. Teddy could not have gotten out then slammed the door hard enough to close it while under water. The windows were closed. Had he been in the car he would have died. People at his hotel reported Teddy was having breakfast the next morning when 2 men came in, spoke to him and then they all left in a hurry. They said Teddy was relaxed until they came in.

I know this is just a theory but it does a good job of explaining the physical evidence.

[jmaroneps37]

Will there be a big touch football game tonight to celebrate?

[bruin66]

ditto

[A. Patriot]

I saw show on A&E or Discovery a couple of years ago that concluded Teddy wasn’t in the car. They stopped after going past a local cop and Teddy got out and swam a mile or so back to his hotel. Mary Jo drove back and went off the bridge as she was not familiar with the area and was used to driving her VW.

The doors were closed on the car. Teddy could not have gotten out then slammed the door hard enough to close it while under water. The windows were closed. Had he been in the car he would have died. People at his hotel reported Teddy was having breakfast the next morning when 2 men came in, spoke to him and then they all left in a hurry. They said Teddy was relaxed until they came in.

I know this is just a theory but it does a good job of explaining the physical evidence.

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I have heard that explanation also. It does make sense. If true, why didn’t he just tell the truth? I guess a lie is better than the truth for rich, priveleged, Democrats.