Chappaquiddick

[Jessie_Pinkman]

What really happened?

Was Ted really just going to drop Mary Jo off at her hotel?

If so, why did she tell no one that she was leaving with him, not even her rommate, and leave her purse and hotel key at the party?

 

[TheOlderGuy]

What really happened?

Was Ted really just going to drop Mary Jo off at her hotel?

If so, why did she tell no one that she was leaving with him, not even her rommate, and leave her purse and hotel key at the party?

Really??? With so much of the world going down the toilet -- THIS is what you wonder?

 

[Lancecastor]

Thank God Ted survived!

http://www.loriferber.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/l/i/life-magazine-january-15-1965.jpg

Otherwise, the entire bourbon industry would have gone under with him.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Really??? With so much of the world going down the toilet -- THIS is what you wonder?

Really??? With so much of the world going down the toilet -- There can't be someplace and time to just not think about it.

This is the GB not the Politics board. Discuss matters of great political and social import there. What's next going to harp on the Tea threads about there lack of importance in social injustices.

By the way, what the fuck is the OP talking about?

 

[Lancecastor]

We need more pictures of Ted's Boiler Room Girls!

Six of them, listed in descending order of age (in 1968), were the following:

Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, who died a year after RFK's campaign, off Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 in a highly publicized and controversial car accident involving her driver, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who pleaded guilty after leaving the scene of an accident;

Mary Ellen Lyons, a graduate of Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, sister of Nance Lyons, and now a practicing attorney in Boston;

Nance Lyons, 26, a graduate of College of the Sacred Heart in Newton, Massachusetts, sister of Mary Ellen Lyons, and now a practicing attorney in Boston;

Esther Newberg, 26, now a New York literary agent and executive

Susan Tannenbaum, 24, now a retired lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and wife of a Washington lawyer; and

Rosemary "Cricket" Keough (now Rosemary Keough Redmond Kerrebrock), 23, a graduate of Manhattanville College and Boston University who went on to be partner in a Lincoln, Massachusetts law firm with her husband.

 

[Jessie_Pinkman]

By the way, what the fuck is the OP talking about?

Ted Kennedy hosted a party on Chappaquiddick for six married men and six (much younger) single women. According to Kennedy, when he was leaving, Mary Jo Kopechne asked if he would drop her off at her hotel.

A policeman spotted them on a dirt road, went to see what was going on, but they sped off.

Then, according to Kennedy, he accidentally drove his car off a one-lane bridge and into a tidal channel before swimming free, but Mary Jo drowned.

He didn't report the accident for 9 hours.

Back to my original question:

What really happened?

Was Ted really just going to drop Mary Jo off at her hotel?

If so, why did she tell no one that she was leaving with him, not even her roommate, and leave her purse and hotel key at the party?

One theory is, they went to fuck in the car, got spooked by the policeman, feared getting stopped together, so he walked back to the house where the party was, leaving Mary Jo to drive the car. She got lost, drove off the bridge, and that's why he didn't report it for so long- he didn't know what had happened.

 

[Not Normal]

does it really matter at this point? Ted's been dead almost 7 years. What are they going to do, send his rotting corpse to prison?

 

[bronzeage]

What really happened?

Was Ted really just going to drop Mary Jo off at her hotel?

If so, why did she tell no one that she was leaving with him, not even her rommate, and leave her purse and hotel key at the party?

They were going down to the beach to fuck. Ted was drunk and drove off the road and into the water. It was pitch black. Ted got out of the car and she didn't.

That's pretty much it.

From the "What if?":

If Ted Kennedy had dove back into the water and pulled her out of the car, then performed CPR until she revived and then carried in his arms back to the house, it would have become another tale of Kennedy heroism. The Presidency would have been his to lose.

 

[Hard_Rom]

He was drunk and needed time to sober up. Real simple.

 

[pensivepoet]

I heard Ted Cruz's father was at that party dancing with Mary Jo.

 

[Mr Noone]

...A policeman spotted them on a dirt road, went to see what was going on, but they sped off...

Just for clarification, no roads on that part of Chappaquiddick are paved, including the one to and from the infamous bridge. Or at least the last time I was there, just after Belushi's funeral.

 

[Lancecastor]

The Mafia killed the Kennedys, including Ted's injected tumor.

 

[Lancecastor]

Poor syntax.

They didnt kill his tumor.