In the #MeToo era, it’s time to revisit Ted Kennedy’s legacy
By Maureen Callahan
July 20, 2019 | 1:26pm | Updated
Three significant anniversaries passed this week.
Only two have truly been noted.
First, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on Saturday, July 20. The second was the 20th anniversary of the deaths of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette in a small plane Kennedy was flying to Martha’s Vineyard.
Only one of those deserves the hagiographic treatment both have been given, but I’ll get to that later.
The third was also a 50th anniversary, one that passed just two days after JFK Jr.’s and was, in many ways, related.
What could it be, Kennedy-worshipping-national-news-media? What could it be?
Only one of the most grievous miscarriages of justice, one of the grossest abuses of wealth and political power, and one of the most ill-deserved second acts in modern American history: July 18, 1969, the night a probably-drunk Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge at Chappaquiddick and left a young, adoring campaign aide named Mary Jo Kopechne to die in about three feet of water, her horrific death a slow agony — one that took hours — as she doubtless waited for her hero, the young and virile Ted, to run for help.
Instead, he stumbled back to his hotel room, called down to the front desk to complain about noisy guests, and went to sleep.
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