What About Mary Jo? NY Times Declares Chappaquiddick ‘Another Kennedy Family Tragedy’
By Scott Whitlock | August 2, 2019 12:36 PM EDT
Never change, New York Times. The so-called “paper of record†on Friday used the death of Robert Kennedy’s granddaughter as a way to bring up Chappaquiddick and call it “another Kennedy family tragedy.â€
And while the death of young Saoirse Kennedy Hill, as well as the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy are, indeed, family tragidies, Chappaquiddick was a calamity for Mary Jo Kopechne, the woman Ted Kennedy abandoned and left to drown. He wasn’t the victim.
Writers Katharine Q. Seelye and Jonathan Martin’s story on Ms. Hill detoured to the 1969 incident: “Last month marked the 50th anniversary of Chappaquiddick, another Kennedy family tragedy that took place when Edward Kennedy drove off a bridge on a small island next to Martha’s Vineyard.â€
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