Posted on 08/30/2010 2:43:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
For many, the name Chappaquiddick conjures images of a drunken Sen. Edward Kennedy hitting on Mary Jo Kopechne in his Oldsmobile, losing control, and plunging into the water of Poucha Pond on Chappaquiddick Island, adjacent to Martha's Vineyard where President Obama was vacationing. Kopechne, a family friend, drowned; and Teddy fumbled for excuses about what happened.
Now, a year after Kennedy died, his lifelong biographer Burton Hersh, armed with fresh interviews with Kennedy's mistress at the time, tells Whispers that the whole July 1969 episode should have been handled as a simple crash, leaving the senator's legacy untainted. "It was a car accident," he says. "Ted was a terrible driver. He never paid much attention to where he was going."
"He took a tremendous blow on the head," says Hersh. In interviews following the crash, Kennedy displayed confusion and amnesia, he says.
"If the thing had been handled properly, the first thing they would have done is put him in a hospital. Then they would have said he was a victim of an auto accident and didn't know what he was doing and couldn't be held responsible for anything that happened really after that, which would have been a fair explanation," says author-journalist Hersh, who knew Kennedy since they were classmates at Harvard. "But instead, he felt terribly guilty about the whole thing ... tried to take responsibility and ... just confused the issue."
In Edward Kennedy: An Intimate Biography, Hersh adds some new details about the episode from Helga Wagner, Kennedy's then-girlfriend and "the love of [his] life," at least until he married his second wife, Victoria.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.usnews.com ...
Hey, he just hit the wrong number on his speed dial cell phone and got his lawyer by mistake...
Ooops, no cell phones or speed dial in 1970... need another excuse.../S
“If the thing had been handled properly ....” Teddy would have worn an orange jumpsuit for a very long time.
He won reelection the following year (1970) by 62%.
There used to be a web site called ytedk.com that was filled with useful information about Chappaquiddick. It disappeared 3-4 years ago. Does anyone have a link to that info, hosted elsewhere? The URL now leads to a domain squatter.
It would be a shame if it were gone forever.
Strange... he wasn't too confused to spend all night phoning his lawyers while Mary Jo drowned.
Fat Ted's body lies a-moulderin' in the grave, but the lies keep marching on...
Kopechne, a family friend
Helga Wagner slept with old fat drunks with erectile dysfunction. :^)
This website is hysterical......Thanks!!!!
“Ted was a terrible driver. He never paid much attention to where he was going.”
Senator Kennedy may have been a terrible driven and that should be all the more reason for what happened while getting oral sex PERFORMED ON HIM while driving across the bridge. My personal opinion of this creep and what happened.
FLAME AWAY....
Thanks. I had tried that once before, but it wasn’t displaying nearly as well as it is now.
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