Mary Jo Kopechne’s Family on Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick: 'The Truth Has Never Really Come Out'

people ^ | BY LIZ MCNEIL MARCH 28, 2018 AT 8:00AM EDT | BY LIZ MCNEIL MARCH 28, 2018 AT 8:00AM EDT

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

After the Clintons died they met Stalin, Hitler, and Mao and told them...

...'well, ha ha, it was fun while it lasted. I could sure use some Ice on that.' said in Bill's inimitable drawl and Hilary's grating screech.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

After the Clintons died they met Stalin, Hitler, and Mao and told them...

...'well, ha ha, it was fun while it lasted. I could sure use some Ice on that.' said in Bill's inimitable drawl and Hilary's grating screech.

[ml/nj]

Why would he ever ever ever ever “admit” to being the driver if he’d had any alternative plausible story? The last thing on earth he wanted, once the accident fatality happened

Maybe it wasn't an accident? Maybe the accident was staged to deflect from something worse, or darker?

ML/NJ

[ml/nj]

That's a terrible map. There was no T intersection. The paved road from the cottage to the ferry made an obvious curve to the left. No one unfamiliar with the island would have even known that there was a dirt road to right (sorta like no one unfamiliar with Washington, DC, would have known Ft Marcy Park existed).

ML/NJ

[Yaelle]

That was a good book. I believe as close to the truth as possible. Sorry the writer got Arkancided, or Hyannicided.

[masadaman]

Actually there were verifiable accounts which were silenced, not first hand...only Teddy was first hand...including his telephone usage captured by phone records at New England Bell. Others included the then deputy sheriff LaSorta and the insurance investigator for General Insurance, insurers for the Olds.

[Yaelle]

Shed be alive today if that party were held recently. She would have blanked him at the cottage or its beach, not driven out to some secluded beach with him. Imagining that back then a woman needed to disappear from the scene with the guy to keep some semblance of a reputation.

[nikos1121]

Movie coming out this week, infact looks like Thursday here in Newnan, GA.

Don’t know how they will describe the events. It seems to me that Kennedy was not in the car when it went over the bridge, but there are so many questions. Formost being the changing stories that he gave, and the cover up.

There was absolutely no public scrutiny of it.

He claims that he swam back to his room, but I saw some report that he was speaking to the manager of the motel at 2:30AM. Was he in wet clothes? Or was the hotel manager paid to lie.

You have him seen by Deputy Sheriff Look at around 12:45am. He supposedly left the part at midnight with her. Told no one they were leaving. SHe leaves her purse at the party.

I contend that he was so drunk, he didn’t recall what had happened. He last remembered driving, but I think he got out of the car when he was approached by Officer Look, and panicked. He drives off a piece, then gets out of the car. He tells her to drive down to the beach. She does, goes off the bridge.

He follows on foot, and of course, it’s dark and he doesn’t see the car in the water. He doesn’t see the car at the beach. So, what does he do. Sleep on the beach, swim back to Edgartown?

[hecticskeptic]

I think your description is reasonably in line with the documentary I linked earlier... As for addressing the question of why admit to being in the car if he wasn’t, he might have viewed that as the lesser of two evils. Once he made the choice to put the neck brace on, he had to continue playing that canard.