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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: mystery-ak on July 18, 2019, 09:20:13 pm
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50 Years After a Woman Mysteriously Drowned in Ted Kennedy's Car, a Letter Claims to Reveal the Truth
[People]
Liz McNeil
PeopleJuly 18, 2019
It’s a mystery that’s lasted for 50 years and lingers still: What happened on the summer night in 1969 when a car driven by Sen. Ted Kennedy plunged off the Dike Bridge into the waters off of Martha’s Vineyard, killing his 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne?
On July 18, 1969, Kopechne, who had worked on Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential bid, attended a reunion party with five of her fellow campaign workers, known as the “Boiler Room girls,†so named for their windowless office.
The party, held at a rental cottage on the island of Chappaquiddick in Massachusetts, was also attended by Ted, Robert’s younger brother, along with five other men, some of whom had also worked on the campaign.
What happened next that night remains unclear, even decades later. And many believe the scandal — beginning with Ted’s 10-hour delay in reporting the deadly accident as well as the lack of an autopsy and his evasiveness about answering the most basic questions about the events surrounding Kopechne’s death — kept him from reaching the White House.
A friend who worked on his 1980 presidential campaign told PEOPLE this of Chappaquiddick: “It hung over him like a permanent cloud. It’s the question everywhere all the time. He knew that.â€
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The man’s letter described how Kopechne had had too much to drink that night in 1969 and did not feel well. Betty put her in the back seat of the senator’s car to rest and then she returned to the cottage where she, too, fell asleep.
According to the letter, in the hours that followed Ted and another female party guest went for a drive in his car, unaware that Kopechne was in the back. When the car went over the bridge, Ted and his passenger escaped and returned to the party — unaware of who they left behind.
Sorry not buying it... sounds like just another attempt to cover up murder.
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Sorry not buying it... sounds like just another attempt to cover up murder.
Agree.
The best place to put someone to “sleep it off†is in the back seat of a car...in July...belonging to the dead senator’s and president’s brother? Without telling him? And the other woman has never uttered a word?
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I doubt we'd ever see anything negative about the Kennedys republished on Yahoo.
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Did Teddy the Snorkel ever claim not to know Mary Jo Kopechne wasn't in his car?
Did Mary Mapes "discover" this "letter".
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Did Teddy the Snorkel ever claim not to know Mary Jo Kopechne wasn't in his car?
Did Mary Mapes "discover" this "letter".
That name is a blast from the past.
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Agree.
The best place to put someone to “sleep it off†is in the back seat of a car...in July...belonging to the dead senator’s and president’s brother? Without telling him? And the other woman has never uttered a word?
Yeah, nothing like having someone puking drunk in the back of your car to sleep it off. Right.
This is a whitewash attempt, and that doesn't even fit the lies they told then.
IMHO, an impending bastard Kennedy would be more motive to blow off the autopsy and cremate the reamains than a mere high BAC.
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Exactly, Joe.
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Yeah, nothing like having someone puking drunk in the back of your car to sleep it off. Right.
This is a whitewash attempt, and that doesn't even fit the lies they told then.
IMHO, an impending bastard Kennedy would be more motive to blow off the autopsy and cremate the reamains than a mere high BAC.
@Axeslinger
@Smokin Joe
Mary Jo was born in a town in Penn., where Bob grew up and Bob's Father owned the Funeral Home and was the County Coroner. Bob's Father used his Funeral Limonene to drive Kennedy/his wife/and his sister-in law Ethyl to the cemetery. If you want to know how the funeral was put together, who did what - (plus Bob's grandfather's son was a Priest there), PM me. I won't write it on a thread since people would post bad things about the Kennedy's and Mary Jo.