Recalling Mary Jo Kopechne

Times Leader (Wilkes Barre PA) ^ | 7/22/09 | Bill O’Boyle

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

An MIT scientist reported that she suffocated.

The diver who retrieved her body (quite fully submerged) reported an air pocket remained in the car and the undertaker who prepared her body for transport reported that there was very little water in her lungs. He measured the water that he expelled, it was about a pint, iirc. Drowning victims have quarts. (He was familiar with drowning victims, working in a popular summer resort area.)

The undertaker was also surprised that the medical examiner released her body to leave the state without an autopsy. It was the only case of accidential death in which this had ever occured in his memory, before or since. He did take the precaution of drawing a blood sample, and yes, she was intoxicated.

[Verginius Rufus]

I'm not surprised that the residents of Chappaquiddick Island vote for Teddy. Mary Jo wasn't a local or even a Massachusetts resident, so why should they care?

Mary Jo was an only child.

[SoDak]

“Chappaquiddick raised serious doubts about Kennedy’s maturity and judgment,” Baldino said. “Aside from the fact that he was with a younger woman not his wife, he had been drinking and he left her in the car after the crash. Few people would vote to entrust such a person with the responsibilities of the president.”

But he still had enough judgement and maturity to be a Senator? Unreal. I wouldn't have hired him to wash the car. This actually speaks more to the lack of judgement and maturity of Massachussetts voters.

[yarddog]

I am not sure about Chappaquiddick Island but according to Damore’s book, Edgartown was the only Republican area in Massachusetts.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I checked the tide tables for Edgartown. Peak to peak tides in the month of July, 2009 are less than 3 ft. (1969 would have been very similar) High or low tide probably wouldn’t change the level of Pocha Pond, very much, obviously. It is, however, narrow so that during the change in tides there would have been a very strong currents making swimming or opening and closing doors in a submerged car difficult.

[Just A Nobody]

Mary Jo wasn't a local or even a Massachusetts resident, so why should they care?

Why should they care? Because the bass-turd committed murder! He is nothing but a drunken, lying, murdering SOB! That's why!

[stephenjohnbanker]

“The undertaker was also surprised that the medical examiner released her body to leave the state without an autopsy.”

You had to live in Massachusetts to understand how much power the Kennedy’s wielded back then. The Boston Herald showed the diagram in their paper, air pocket and all.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Interesting, to say the least. The problem with Kennedy is that he didn’t seek immediate help for her. For that he is a cowardly SOB.

[Grampa Dave]

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If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd would still have been our President.

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.