The death/murder of Mary Jo Kopechne by the egotisitical, slimy bast*ard Ted Kennedy was too awful for the media to face head on. There was absolutedly no excuse for what Kennedy did.
@goatprairie Yes,there was. Several,in fact. "I was drunk,she was blowing me while I was driving,etc,etc,etc". These same "excuses" from the driver's POV are used in court somewhere every day.
The difference is 99 percent of them get locked away anyhow,but Fat Teddy was always in the 1 percent club. Hell,maybe even the half-percent club because he never even had to give an excuse and AFAIK,was never even charged with her death. He plea-bargained to something like "driving while impaired",and AFAIK,was never even charged with leaving the scene of an accident,never mind manslaughter or reckless homicide.
It didn't even hurt his re-election run.