The mother of the young woman killed in the car that Senator Ted Kennedy recklessly drove off a bridge died this week and, not surprisingly, the veteran Massachusetts Democrat is avoiding the media like the plague.
Mary Jo Kopechne was a 28-year-old Democratic campaign worker when she drowned in Kennedy’s car after the senator drove it into a pond in Chappaquiddick, east of Martha’s Vineyard nearly four decades ago. Kennedy had an expired license and, as was customary for him, he had been drinking at a party before leaving with the young woman.
Kennedy escaped the accident unscathed but left his young lady friend to drown in the car’s back seat. He later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a crime but only got a slap on the hand, a two-month suspended jail sentence. Many believe he escaped justice, which is why the tragedy at Chappaquiddick has been called the most brilliant cover-up ever achieved in a nation where investigative procedures are well developed.
Two decades after the horrific event more light was shed on the cover-up when the foreman of the grand jury that investigated the accident, came forward and confessed that the panel was pressured by a judge and a prosecutor not to pursue the case. The foreman said the jury was manipulated and blocked from doing its job.
Regardless of this shameful event, Kennedy remains a fixture in the U.S. Senate. He usually loves the media, but made sure to avoid reporters when Gwen Kopechne died this week in a Plains Township nursing home. She was 89 and never got over the death of her only daughter.
While Chappaquiddick ranks among Kennedy’s biggest scandals, the senator’s storied political career features many more. There is even a website completely dedicated to all of Kennedy’s scandals. The Chappaquiddick section is especially informative and includes a time line, illustrations, maps and police documents from the tragic 1969 event. It also details Kennedy’s record of serious traffic violations and negligent driving in the years leading up to the incident.
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ted kennedy
I don't see how the man can stand looking at himself in the mirror. He is around the people everyday who are responsible foe murdering his family members and he doesn't have the dignity to do anything about it, let alone hang out with them. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes when FATE comes around!
Kennedy and the rest of the Washington trash
I have never been able to figure out what the people who vote for Kennedy, time after time see in him or his family. We are all to blame, we the voters who keep putting him and the rest of the trash back in office. They are killing our country and we don't seem to have the guts to clean house of all of them and start over again. Maybe someday we will learn to be men.
R Rice
Kennedy & the rest of the Washington trash
Amen & amen! I do agree with you!
Again, an example that "only
Again, an example that "only the good die young".
Kennedy & Congress
We need term limits desperately for all of Congress. Also need to cut their benefits when they finally leave. THey talk abou the working class needing assistance but what do they do - vote in an increase of their wages. Doesn't make any sense. The people of the U.S. are being robbed of their money the way Congress keeps up with their pet projects. Teddy should have been barred from even being a member of Congress. Indirectly he committed murder leaving Mary Jo to die. How the people of MA can keep him in the Senate is beyond me but evidently someone is voting him in office. No brainer?
kennedy and the bridge
should have been jailed
kennedy- RICE REPLY
HERE IN THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF "KENNEDY-ACHUSSETS", THE FIX IS ALWAYS IN.
RECCOMENDED READING - "THE BROTHERS BULGER". ASK YOURSELF WHICH PARTY KENNEDY LEADS?
kennedy coward murderer
Kennedy's suspended sentenced should be reimposed, even after 40 years, Look at the laws Bill&Hillary have circumvented since 1993 including defrauding Peter Paul&Stan lee none of them have ever been brought to justice through the Clinton cronies in the entire judicial system. Those in the Bush administration, have been brought up on allege false charges behind vindictive Democrats hiding from its own pattern of ''culture of corruption.'' From allege FISA violations to Abu Ghraib these Dems have no shame, except abuse its own people for power, throw these uncaring human debris out this coming Nov we do not want return of Clinton era abuses of Gov't.
Kennedy
He should have been put behind bars instead of being installed in the U.S. Senate.
Ted Kennedy & Washington trash
To: R. Rice - Your comments are true - it is our fault. We, the public continually fall for the propaganda generated by the media toadies who think that they will receive some reward from the liberal establishment for glorifying and perpetuating the myths (lies) about the Ted Kennedys, Daley family,the Clintons,and other "icons" of the power establishment. We should educate ourselves to the facts and work with those facts to vote these parasites out of office. It is our country. We ought to try to keep it clean, evironmentally and especially, morally. Throwing these power hungry parasites out is a good start. But, as R. Rice notes, "someday we will learn to be men." We better start now with the election of 2008---there may not be an electionof 2012!
Teddy
It's amazing that with all the scandals of Ted Kennedy the people of Massachusetts find him so 'attractive', so 'loveable', and so 'qualified' that they elect him year after year to represent their state.
re:
Him and Byrd, et al, point to a real problem in a representative democracy. I can understand people in other countries seeing it--misunderstanding it--and then fighting to the death to not allow it to come to their own country.
ted kennedy
i've heard our government was taken over the day jfk was killed it seems we've had little voice in it since that day . its like ted kennedy joined the -------- party the next day and has been doing everything possible since to take this country down . he is the perfect example for term limits . to get a job i have to take a drug test i'd like to see it done in washington how many times has this idiot been drunk or stoned while voting . i don't dance but in teddys honor the day the good news i've waited to hear about him finally comes i'll dance for joy for one hour
Kennedy Gets Away with Murder
I can't believe how STUPID THE PEOPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS ARE as they keep voting in Murders; sex Pedifiles who have sex with female interns; and gays who run brothels out of their home like Barney Frank. Makes me wonder how smart those people really are especially with schools like MIT, Harvard, and Yale in the area.
Kennedy and the Democratic Party
It is not the power of Kennedy that has thwarted justice, it is the Democratic Party. They could have/ should have called for a congressional investigation to either prove his innocence or guilt. By failing to have an investigation they give the appearence that Democrats are above the law and if guilty, are given a slap on the wrist (especially if they steal secret presidential documents under their cloths and destroy them).
Kennedy Outlives Family He Ruined
How he gets reelected is a real question, but not the only one. How does Kerry keep his seat as well? In a state that has some of the highest regarded colleges, it would seem that some of the intellegence supposedly housed at Harvard and MIT ought to spread to the voting populace so that they could find politicians with better intellectual prowess than those two idiots. Well maybe things will turn around there. Intellegent people don't need to cheat and rely on machine politics to get themselves elected. Romney got elected, didn't he?
Senator Ted Kennedy and Jo K
Is this old man reliable? He is a killer, a rapist, a fool, a liar, a sexist, a fool, a shame to the state of Massachusetts and the United Sates, and now a Nantucket sound poluter, and a OBAMA patsy. Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame. Get out of public life you no gooder
For all you who are
For all you who are "puzzled" how the people of Massachusetts could vote time and time again for this sub-human - all you have to do is live here for a few months.
The stupidity of the people in this state is overwhelming. And the real kick is that the people of Massachusetts think every-other state is wrong. They just don't get it.
Kennedy's= Hypocrites
I'm an irish catholic who grew up and escaped from Massachusetts, my brain and sense of right and wrong amazingly in tact. The Kennedy's, and I mean the whole pathetic brood of them, are the living/breathing definition of hypocrisy. They represent everything that is wrong with the democratic party and the ignorant souls who follow them.
So Teddy has a brain tumor? Cue the tradgedy/dynasty documentary. An endless barrage of "what a guy" tributes are on the way. I'm sure he'll be allowed to battle like a hero and die with dignity......unlike Mary Jo.
SATAN IS CALLING "UNCLE TEDDY" HOME
Justice has been perverted & thwarted for a long time while this murderer has enjoyed a full, long life, but the chickens are now coming home to roost. Hell is preparing a huge party for Teddys welcome home party. The blood of Mary Jo and millions of aborted baby's cries out for justice !!!! He WILL be judged, sentenced, AND punished for all he has done in his unrepentent lifetime. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.
Teddy Kennedy surgery, and life ahead before his demise.
Oh Teddy the brutal sodomite blood-luster of the dead fetal tissue destroyer of the constitution and nation by opening the tower of babel has returned from the hospital after brain surgery today. The mouth of the lying beast, the controlled press, makes mention of his being in good spirits. Wrong! He is with the spirit of satan who gave him to fulfill his earthly desires and now has returned to take him for torment for all eternity. As the bloody green puss oozes out of the new fleshy part of his head where the skull was removed, he will be able to feel the throbbing pressure of that area. Next he can eat of satans thalidomide derivatives while undergoing the radiation of the cyber-knife destroying his resistance to his new bone and kidney and lung cancers. The death of his thyroid glands will make him more bloated than even he can remember until the weakness shriveled state sets in and begs more morphine, he screams and screams. All the while puking and becoming weaker and weaker until viki screams for the fentynal patch. Respiratory failure they will note on the demon made flesh's death certificate and a groan from the underworld will signify satans claim of another soul.
Reaping & Sowing
Kennedy will not escape reaping what he has sown over the years. His day will come along with all the other evil, corrupt, psychotropic drug induced scoundrels in government. I love this qoute: "People should not be afraid of their government, but government should be afraid of their people!" No one escapes the consequences of their actions whether it be in this life or the life after death. Americans have fought against the British Empirical King and won! Americans have fought in civil war. Americans continue to fight against tyrannical rulers around the world. Where is the totalitarian American government going to hide when Americans fight against their tyranny and oppression!? Why do these psychotic people in leadership need to rule the world!? There must be some form of insanity inside these individuals!
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