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Family of Mary Jo Kopechne releases 50-year-old letter from Muhammad Ali
The Times Leader ^ | 7/13/2019 | Bill O’Boyle

Posted on 07/15/2019 9:02:35 PM PDT by Born Conservative

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To: Born Conservative

Could it be that a 50-year moratorium on commenting on Mary Jo’s death has just expired? Perhaps the family will release more.


41 posted on 07/16/2019 3:05:31 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: headstamp 2

The family got 2 checks, one from an insurance company and one from the Kennedys. The former for about 50 grand, the later almost 100 grand.


42 posted on 07/16/2019 3:09:28 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: dp0622

The family refused to insist on an autopsy so we will likely never know.


43 posted on 07/16/2019 3:10:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: Born Conservative

Archive of the old Y Ted K.com site. Lots of good primary material.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050226015704/http://www.ytedk.com/


44 posted on 07/16/2019 3:23:31 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: blackdog
Very much belatedly, and not to gloss over Ali's or any American of African descent's mistake in joining the religion of the people who were the actual hunters, captors, and sellers of their ancestors, but I eventually came to the same conclusion he did about the stupidity of American involvement in an Asian civil war. Wrong war in the wrong place, stupidly fought by arrogant Democrats, that damaged this country badly (thanks, LBJ).

My draft lottery number in 1972 was 10 (out of 365) and if not for a couple sports injuries noted at my induction physical I would probably have been called up, and would have reported. But he did pay a price for his stand and did not, for example, scurry off to Canada and continue his boxing career. So looking back now I have respect for a man my grandfather saw fight in pre-championship bouts in Cincinnati and who he described as the most phenomenally gifted boxer he'd ever seen. In his words, "Clay fights like some giant jungle cat". And apparently Clay likewise saw the Kennedy's for the scum they were. So, warts and all, I'll give the man his due.

45 posted on 07/16/2019 3:54:33 AM PDT by katana
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To: Born Conservative
...there are some in a boxing co mmunity who are against releasing it. There are a select few who are against showing the world this side of Muhammad Ali because it may taint his “public image” or his “brand.” His stance in this letter may not fit the narrative and image they want to portray of him today just as his acts of defiance over fifty years ago didn’t fit into their narrative then.

I hope some reporter will ask for an elaboration on this. Precisely who in the boxing community is objecting to a letter that shows Ali on the side of truth, justice, and accountability for irresponsible, degenerate, politically connected elites/ Any what is their motive?

46 posted on 07/16/2019 3:55:47 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: dp0622
and he may not have even been in the car when it went under.

Well he definitely WAS in the car when it went IN the water.........

47 posted on 07/16/2019 4:05:10 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Born Conservative

The Delegate from Chappaquiddick poster from National Lampoon, no. 28, July 1972.
48 posted on 07/16/2019 4:05:52 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: wastedyears

https://time.com/5305927/trump-muhammad-ali-pardon/


49 posted on 07/16/2019 4:36:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

>>They were and are rotten to the core

The Press?
The Kennedys?
All of the Above?


50 posted on 07/16/2019 4:37:14 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: headstamp 2

Yep.


51 posted on 07/16/2019 5:11:43 AM PDT by bgill
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To: \/\/ayne

Loved that cartoon.

It hung on the wall of my shop at work for years.


52 posted on 07/16/2019 5:53:49 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: headstamp 2

A check....with an added scary threat.


53 posted on 07/16/2019 6:04:04 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Born Conservative
Ali wrote that the family should seek a good lawyer and they should sue Kennedy “for everything he’s got.” ... Ted Kennedy never faced any serious charges over the incident and went on to serve for decades in the U.S. Senate. He died in 2009.

The coward - the killer - the creepiest of the criminal Kennedy family - had a "D" by his name so he got a pass from the corrupt press and the corrupt 'intelligence' fops... So he walked... and was worshiped by the white trash 'elites' in Washington...

54 posted on 07/16/2019 6:18:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC Bimbos & Pretentious men: EVERY CHILD RAPIST on Epstein's plane was a powerful democrat...)
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To: Born Conservative
Ali wrote that the family should seek a good lawyer and they should sue Kennedy “for everything he’s got.” Ali suggested there was “an illicit sexual encounter” and he claimed there was foul play involved in Kopechne’s death.

Everyone knew this, however the media covered it up, the corrupt media.

55 posted on 07/16/2019 6:20:12 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: mewzilla

Well we now know what a 1969 daughter is worth $100Gs.

All I can say is they must not have liked her much!

And to think the Clintons make the Kennedys look like Fagin and his pickpocketing gang!

The truth is be it Kennedys, Clintons or Bidens fundamentally its the fault of the voters. Always looking for a magic savior who’ll make them rich with no effort, smite the wealthy because well “Just Because!”, make them sexy, clean their teeth & make them smell good!


56 posted on 07/16/2019 6:39:16 AM PDT by Reily
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To: katana

My lottery number was 52. I felt like I had a bull’s-eye on my back there for a while. I was fortunate in that I got a student deferment just before those were ended. The draft was ended before I finished college.
My father was one of the early Marine advisors and came back in 1964 and told me and my brothers it was going to be an ugly mess and to stay out of the military if we could. My father was a dyed-in-the-wool patriot but he also was realistic and knew how to read the tea leaves.

Before he was in Nam he was a military liaison with the civilian press in Washington DC. He knew about all the shenanigans well ahead of everybody else. That meaning the Kennedys and the press.

One of Kennedy’s copter pilots lived across the street from us in Woodbridge Virginia. he suddenly got sent to Vietnam as a fighter pilot and was killed in action. It was always my father’s opinion this was a result of seeing and hearing too many things about JFK.


57 posted on 07/16/2019 6:42:15 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Born Conservative

Yawn. If you didn’t have the guts to put this out there during one of The Swimmer’s many re-election campaigns, don’t do it now.


58 posted on 07/16/2019 7:38:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Ted Kennedy told dead Mary Jo jokes and the press knew about it but kept that a secret until after he died.

Oh... my!

Has this been multi-sourced and authenticated?

.

59 posted on 07/16/2019 8:02:22 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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To: dp0622

“... or is it a complete conspiracy theory?”

A&E did a special, years ago. I highly recommend it, if you can find it. Mary Jo and several others (they called themselves the “boilermaker girls”) went on the road with Ted and company. The rumors abounded, apparently. She got pregnant, got Kennedy wife aspirations, and got dumped after a late-night tryst. She left Ted, drove off, drunk, in the car. Ted walks back to hotel, crawls into bed, oblivious to her abscence.

An autopsy would’ve revealed BAC, pregnancy, and any other neat stuff Ted’s career would prefer remain unknown. One big cash settlement, and Ted’s dirty laundry AND Mary Jo’s stayed secret forever.


60 posted on 07/16/2019 8:31:29 AM PDT by Nabron
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