Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours.
On the evening of July 18, 1969, while most Americans were home watching television reports on the progress of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, Kennedy and his cousin Joe Gargan were hosting a cookout and party at a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick Island, an affluent island near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The party was planned as a reunion for Kopechne and five other women, all veterans of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign. Bobby Kennedy was Ted Kennedy’s older brother, and following Bobby’s assassination in June 1968 Ted took up his family’s political torch. In 1969, Ted Kennedy was elected majority whip in the U.S. Senate, and he seemed an early front-runner for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.
Just after 11 p.m., Kennedy left the party with Kopechne, by his account to drive to the ferry slip where they would catch a boat back to their respective lodgings in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard. While driving down the main roadway, Kennedy took a sharp turn onto the unpaved Dike Road, drove for a short distance, and then missed the ramp to a narrow wooden bridge and drove into Poucha Pond. Kennedy, a married man, claimed the Dike Road excursion was a wrong turn. However, both he and Kopechne had previously driven down the same road, which led to a secluded ocean beach just beyond the bridge. In addition, Kopechne had left both her purse and room key at the party.
Kennedy escaped the car and then dove down in an attempt to retrieve Kopechne from the sunken Oldsmobile. Failing, he stumbled back to the cottage, where he enlisted Gargan and another friend in a second attempt to save Kopechne. The three men were unsuccessful; her body was not recovered. The trio then went to the ferry slip, where Kennedy dove into the water and swam back to Edgartown, about a mile away. He returned to his room at the Shiretown Inn, changed his clothes, and at 2:25 a.m. stepped out of his room when he spotted the innkeeper, Russell Peachey. He told Peachey that he been awakened by noise next door and asked what time it was. He then returned to his room.
Was Kennedy trying to establish an alibi? In Leo Damore’s Senatorial Privilege–the Chappaquiddick Cover-up (1988), the author recounts an interview with Joe Gargan in which Gargan claimed that Kennedy had plotted to make Kopechne the driver and sole occupant of the automobile. Whatever Kennedy’s intentions, on the morning of July 19 he went back to Chappaquiddick Island and then returned to Edgartown. At 9:45 a.m., 10 hours after driving off Dike Road bridge, Kennedy reported the accident to Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena and admitted that he was the driver.
On July 25, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, received a two-month suspended sentence, and had his license suspended for a year. That evening, in a televised statement, he called the delayed reporting of the accident “indefensible” but vehemently denied that he been involved in any improprieties with Kopechne. He also asked his constituents to help him decide whether to continue his political career. Receiving a positive response, he resumed his senatorial duties at the end of a month.
There is speculation that he used his considerable influence to avoid more serious charges that could have resulted from the episode. Although the incident on Chappaquiddick Island helped to derail his presidential hopes, Kennedy continued to serve as a U.S. senator of Massachusetts into the 21st century. He died in 2009.
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Just another example of the Just Us system that protects the well connected.
And another example of the Marianas Trench
depth of marxocrat stupidity. It never changes.
AquaTed was re-elected to the senate until he died.
Just another type of abortion. No autopsy performed, so we will never know the cause of death or if it was two deaths.
I was only 12 years old at the time of ‘this accident’ but remember the optics . Poor Teddy showed up the next day with a neck brace on, seeking sympathy. Basically Teddy got drunk, which he did a lot, was planning to lay Mary Jo drove into the tide pool instead and went on a career in the U.S. senate until 2009…………………
He already laid her.
She had grass stains on the back of her dress.
Where the he’ll was her family? They, at the least, should have hounded that POS till the end.
They got paid-off..
Her parents were working class people. They moved into a fabulous new house that her father could never afford and lived a lifestyle that he couldn’t afford either. The MSM never said a word about it. Her parents were probably given the choice of taking the bribe or getting harrassed and tormented for the rest of their lives, maybe killed.
Ted Kennedy was called the “Lion of the Senate”. That’s true. Probably because he mated at will and killed without remorse.
One day in the future, Barack Obama has a heart-attack and dies. He immediately goes to hell, where the devil is waiting for him
“I don’t know what to do here,” says the devil. “You are on my list, but I have no room for you. You definitely have to stay here, so I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’ve got a couple of folks here who weren’t quite as bad as you. I’ll let one of them go, but you have to take their place. I’ll even let YOU decide who leaves.”
Obama thought that sounded pretty good, so the devil opened the door to the first room.
In it was Ted Kennedy and a large pool of water. Ted kept diving in, and surfacing, empty handed. Over, and over, and over he dived in and surfaced with nothing. Such was his fate in hell. “No,” Obama said. “I don’t think so. I’m not a good swimmer, and I don’t think I could do that all day long.”
The devil led him to the door of the next room. In it was Al Gore with a sledge-hammer and a room full of rocks. All he did was swing that hammer, time after time after time. “No, this is no good; I’ve got this problem with my shoulder. I would be in constant agony if all I could do was break rocks all day,” commented Obama.
The devil opened a third door. Through it, Obama saw Bill Clinton, lying on the bed, his arms tied over his head, and his legs restrained in a spread-eagle pose. Bent over him was Monica Lewinsky, doing what she does best.
Obama looked at this in shocked disbelief, and finally said, “Yeah man, I can handle this.” The devil smiled and says; “OK, Monica, you’re free to go.”
Disgustingly great.
I always down-vote stucky…but I can up-vote you.
Obama probably sucks dick better than Monica…
I always thought he was the Lyin’ of the Senate.
https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-rennie-dodd-kennedy-waitress-sandwich-1119-20171115-column.html
And then there’s the ‘National Lampoon’ take on it … that got every copy of the issue retrieved by the Kennedy clan …
Kennedy — like so many other figures over the years — was merely the face that the (((perpetrators))) of this crime against our Nation held up before the public … sort of like Margaret Sanger was, too … among others … so that (((they))) force an agenda on US that we don’t want …
Fucking slimeball. All of the fucking Kennedys are slimeballs.
I don’t think he was actually that bad a driver. In his defense, I think he was really drunk at the time.
That’s just one of the criteria for being a really bad driver … DUI …
Legally, what he did was negligent vehicular homicide. Something any regular person would have done prison time for. It is good to be the Kings…… Just keep telling yourself, we live in a free country……
I forever have the image of killer Ted with the neckbrace burned into my mind.
“The Camp Of The Saints”
Give him a break. If Trump had not tried to wrest the wheel from him, both he and Maryjo would have been fine.
The Kennedys were all stand up folks.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., certainly is … especially taking on BigPharma the way he has over the years …