Posted on 08/26/2009 11:44:56 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
For anyone who thinks that Free Republic is romping just a wee bit too hard on poor old Ted, I guarantee you that you ain’t seen nuthin’ like the celebrating that will go on here, and elsewhere on the ‘nets, when Hanoi Jane finally assumes room temperature...
“I knew about one of them. You have any links to read on the others ie anything but the young lady drowning...?”
1. Dodged Korea through family connections
Kennedy earned C grades at the private Milton Academy, but was admitted to Harvard as a “legacy” — his father and older brothers had attended there, so the younger and dimmer Kennedy’s admission was virtually assured. While attending, he was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England, pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged.
2. Murdered a young lady by drowning
http://news.aol.com/article/the-point-ted-kennedy-chappaquiddick/640673
3. Conspired with the KGB in an attempt to beat Reagan
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/kgb-letter-details-ted-kennedys-offer-to-help-ussr
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/burtis110506.htm
4. Boldly lied and defamed Judge Bork
http://trueslant.com/level/2009/08/26/remember-ted-kennedy-for-bork-not-bipartisanship/
5. Participated in at least one date rape
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/celebrity/william_k_smith/index.html
I lived in Crane Hill, until seven years ago. I now live in Tarrant.
Any of the books on the Kennedys not written by their friends has references to it
Nicely done! That was a real “double take”...
Hehehe! I hope that there will be people standing along the funeral route going into Arlington with “Remenber Mary Jo” signss to hold up when the cameras are on them.
He was the son of a bootlegger. He was a Kennedy who thought he was royalty. He thought he didn’t need ventilation in his outhouse. He was never brought up on the charges because he was a Kennedy. Nothing was ever done to him for killing Mary Jo. So, in the end, Mary Jo got him after all. You can’t live 40 years 40 days after killing someone without getting brain cancer. She was always on his mind, she was always on his mind. Glad she got him in the end.
There is one justice system for the Kennedys and one for the rest of us. Can’t do it live now, but your hellacious, socialist agenda now needs an overhaul and ALL the legislation you put into place needs revoked.
The Senate is not the House of Lords. He was nothing but Irish trash.
In case you have forgotten or never knew the details, Ted and five of his pals and six women known as the “Boiler Room Girls” who had worked in Bobby Kennedy’s presidential campaign, cut short by his assassination the year before, were weekending together. Afterward, the men claimed it was just a couple of days of innocent fun to thank the girls for their help, though the six guys were all married but partying without their wives, and the young women were all single. One of the “Boiler Room Girls” is now big-time New York literary agent Esther Newberg, who was Mary Jo’s roommate for the weekend. Like everyone involved in the incident, Esther remains close-mouthed about what occurred.
What everyone testified at the time was that Kennedy and Mary Jo left the party before midnight. Kennedy said he was driving her back to the ferry to Edgartown, and took a wrong turn, though he was very familiar with the roads on the island. His car toppled off a narrow wooden-planked bridge, a bridge that is in the opposite direction to the road that led to the ferry but is on the way to the beach. The car landed upside-down in eight feet of water and, Kennedy claimed that after escaping, he tried unsuccessfully to rescue Mary Jo. He then staggered back to the party, called out his cousin Joe Gargan and his pal Paul Markham, to return to the scene. What he didn’t do, inexplicably, was seek help in a lighted house only yards from the bridge or use the fire-alarm phone at a fire station he passed on the way back to the party.
Right from the start, the reporters who arrived at the scene were skeptical of his story, skeptical even of how he claimed he got back to Edgartown that night. Markham and Gargan said when they drove to the ferry landing — the ferry had stopped running by then — Kennedy took them by surprise by jumping in the water, and swimming across the channel towards Edgartown. They assumed, they said, he would report the accident that night to the police. Instead Kennedy went back to his hotel, ostensibly to change his clothes but instead, went downstairs to complain about a noisy party that was going on.
The next morning Markham and Gargan were waiting for Kennedy when he arrived at 9 A.M. on the first ferry. The ferry operator said Kennedy appeared to be in a jovial mood, but probably only until he was told that his car had been found. Only then did Kennedy return and report the accident.
Some reporters, primarily the foreign press, did ask tough questions. For example: Did Kennedy really swim back to Edgartown that night? No one saw him with wet clothes and my husband, for one, interviewed a young man who had tied up his rowboat at the Chappaquiddick dock on Saturday night. When he got there on Sunday morning, he said, it had been retied and with what he called a “land lubber’s knot.”
But the whole incident was overshadowed by the worldwide coverage of the moonwalk. Besides, all the people involved had, by midday, left Martha’s Vineyard and headed home. When the police went to the cottage where the party had taken place, all they found were some washed Coca-Cola bottles. There was no one to interview and no one who would talk then — or ever. Besides, Kennedy was treated like Massachusetts royalty by the local police chief, Dominick Arena, who even gave up his office so that Kennedy could make telephone calls to advisers and lawyers in privacy.
It may have been the last time when a scandal was so under-investigated, so quickly dispatched — and the man involved seemed to get off so easily for what he had done. A week later, Kennedy, who arrived in court wearing a neck brace, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence and a year’s probation.
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