I’ve read there was a house with its lights on near the scene of the accident . All Kennedy had to do was go to the house, make a call and get help quickly. But no his political future was more important.
I was just 16 when all this happened, but, I still remember Teddy boy showing his neck brace for the world to see, what a POS.
Yes. It isn’t the accident, a drunk Senator plunging off a small bridge, and even the accidental death therefrom that is so unforgivable.
(I am thinking of a funny actor on a current TV show who was driving drunk and caused a death. He served his time behind bars and I believe his crime is forgivable although horrible, of course.)
It’s the cover up and why. While Mary Jo waited for what she assumed would be a rescue any minute, breathing the air pocket until it finally ran out of oxygen, Teddy decided to first SLEEP OFF HIS DRUNK and hope that a family member would magically save him from this little mishap too. He WENT TO BED knowing she was still underwater in his car.
He chose saving his career over saving the life of the girl he was surely intending to “mate” just hours earlier.
The REASON he was the everpresent Lion of the Senate was ONLY because he escaped responsibility for her death.
I don’t know what he could have been convicted of potentially, but I’d almost think he was eligible for worse like “lying in wait” or some such by his abhorrently deliberate negligence. He should have served time in jail.