The story of Ted Kennedy “The Chappaquiddick Murderer”
I don’t feel sorry for this bastard and his tumor:
The “Chappaquiddick incident” refers to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker for the assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York.
In July 1969, Kopechne’s dead body was discovered inside an overturned car belonging to Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts under water in a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts.
The incident became a national scandal, and may have affected the Senator’s decision not to run for President in 1972.
On July 18, 1969, Ted Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick, a small island connected via ferry to the main part of the town of Edgartown on the adjoining larger island of Martha’s Vineyard. The party was a reunion for a group of six women, including Kopechne, known as the “boiler-room girls“, who had served in his brother Robert’s 1968 presidential campaign. Also present were Joseph Gargan (Ted Kennedy’s cousin), Paul Markham (a school friend of Gargan’s who would become United States Attorney for Massachusetts under the patronage of the Kennedys), Charles Tretter (an attorney), Raymond La Rosa and John Crimmins (Ted Kennedy’s part-time driver). Kennedy was also competing in the Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta, a sailing competition which was taking place over several days.
According to his own testimony at the inquest into Kopechne’s death, Kennedy left the party at “approximately 11:15 p.m.” When he announced that he was about to leave, Kopechne indicated “that she was desirous of leaving, if I would be kind enough to drop her back at her hotel”. Kennedy then requested the keys to his car from his chauffeur, Crimmins. Asked why he did not have his chauffeur drive them both, Kennedy explained that Crimmins along with some other partygoers “were concluding their meal, enjoying the fellowship and it didn’t appear to me necessary to require him to bring me back to Edgartown”.
Christopher “Huck” Look was a deputy sheriff working as a special police officer at the Edgartown regatta dance that night. At 12:30 am he left the dance, crossed over to Chappaquiddick in the yacht club’s launch, got into his parked car and drove home. He testified that between 12:30 and 12:45 am he had seen a dark car containing a man driving and a woman in the front seat approaching the intersection with Dike Road. The car had gone first onto the private Cemetery Road and stopped there. Thinking that the occupants of the car might be lost, Look had gotten out of his car and walked towards it. When he was 25 to 30 feet away, the car started backing up towards him. When Look called out to offer his help, the car took off down Dike Road in a cloud of dust.[4] Look recalled that the car’s license plate began with a “L” and contained the number “7″ twice, both details true of Kennedy’s 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88.
According to his inquest testimony, Kennedy made a wrong turn onto Dike Road, an unlit dirt road that led to Dike Bridge (also spelled Dyke Bridge). Dike Road was unpaved, but Kennedy, driving at “approximately twenty miles an hour”, took “no particular notice” of this fact, and did not realize that he was no longer headed towards the ferry landing. Dike Bridge was a wooden bridge angled obliquely to the road with no guardrail. A fraction of a second before he reached the bridge, Kennedy applied his brakes; he then drove over the side of the bridge. The car plunged into tide-swept Poucha Pond (at that location a channel) and came to rest upside down underwater. Kennedy later recalled that he was able to swim free of the vehicle, but Kopechne was not. Kennedy claimed at the inquest that he called Kopechne’s name several times from the shore, then tried to swim down to reach her seven or eight times, then rested on the bank for around fifteen minutes before returning on foot to Lawrence Cottage, where the party attended by Kopechne and other “Boiler Room Girls” had occurred. Kennedy denied seeing any house with a light on during his journey back to Lawrence Cottage.
In addition to the working telephone at the Lawrence Cottage, according to one commentator, his route back to the cottage would have taken him past four houses from which he could have telephoned and summoned help; however, he did not do so. The first of those houses, referred to as “Dike House”, was only 150 yards away from the bridge, and was occupied by Sylvia Malm and her family at the time of the incident. Malm later stated that she had left a light on at the residence when she retired for that evening.
According to Kennedy’s testimony, Gargan and party co-host Paul Markham then returned to the pond with Kennedy to try to rescue Kopechne. Both of the other men also tried to dive into the water and rescue Kopechne multiple times. When their efforts to rescue Kopechne failed, Kennedy testified, Gargan and Markham drove with Kennedy to the ferry landing, both insisting multiple times that the accident had to be reported to the authorities. According to Markham’s testimony Kennedy was sobbing and on the verge of breaking down. Kennedy went on to testify that “[I] had full intention of reporting it. And I mentioned to Gargan and Markham something like, ‘You take care of the other girls; I will take care of the accident!’ — that is what I said and I dove into the water”. Kennedy had already told Gargan and Markham not to tell the other women anything about the incident “[b]ecause I felt strongly that if these girls were notified that an accident had taken place and Mary Jo had, in fact, drowned, that it would only be a matter of seconds before all of those girls, who were long and dear friends of Mary Jo’s, would go to the scene of the accident and enter the water with, I felt, a good chance that some serious mishap might have occurred to any one of them”. Gargan and Markam would testify that they assumed that Kennedy was going to inform the authorities once he got back to Edgartown, and thus did not do so themselves.
According to his own testimony, Kennedy swam across the 500-foot channel, back to Edgartown and returned to his hotel room, where he removed his clothes and collapsed on his bed. Hearing noises, he later put on dry clothes and asked someone what the time was: it was something like 2:30 a.m., the senator recalled. He testified that, as the night went on, “I almost tossed and turned and walked around that room … I had not given up hope all night long that, by some miracle, Mary Jo would have escaped from the car.”
Back at his hotel, Kennedy complained at 2:55 am to the hotel owner that he had been awoken by a noisy party. By 7:30 am the next morning he was talking “casually” to the winner of the previous day’s sailing race, with no indication that anything was amiss. At 8 a.m., Gargan and Markham joined Kennedy at his hotel where they had a “heated conversation”. According to Kennedy’s testimony, the two men asked why he hadn’t reported the accident. Kennedy responded by telling them “about my own thoughts and feelings as I swam across that channel … that somehow when they arrived in the morning that they were going to say that Mary Jo was still alive”. The three men subsequently crossed back to Chappaquiddick Island on the ferry, where Kennedy made a series of phone calls from a payphone by the crossing to his friends for advice; he again did not report the accident to authorities.
Earlier that morning, two amateur fishermen had seen the overturned car in the water and notified the inhabitants of the nearest cottage to the pond, who called the authorities at around 8:20 am. A diver was sent down and discovered Kopechne’s body at around 8:45 am. The diver, John Farrar, later testified at the inquest that Kopechne’s body was pressed up in the car in the spot where an air bubble would have formed. He interpreted this to mean that Kopechne had survived for a while after the initial accident in the air bubble, and concluded that
John Farrar was a guest on the Howie Carr show on the 25th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. The following link is the actual audio of John Farrar’s interview. *The John Farrar Interview
Police checked the car’s license plate and saw that it was registered to Kennedy. When Kennedy, still at the pay phone by the ferry crossing, saw that the body had been discovered, he crossed back to Edgartown and went to the police station: Gargan simultaneously went to the hotel where the Boiler Room Girls were staying to inform them about the incident.
Kennedy’s initial statement
At 10 am Kennedy entered the police station in Edgartown, made a couple of phone calls, then dictated a statement to his aide Paul Markham, which was then given to the police. The statement ran as follows:
Court proceedings
On July 25, seven days after the incident, Kennedy entered a plea of guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury. Kennedy’s attorneys suggested that any jail sentence should be suspended, and the prosecutors agreed to this, citing Kennedy’s age, character and prior reputation. Judge James Boyle sentenced Kennedy to two months incarceration, the statutory minimum for the offense, which he suspended. In announcing the sentence, Boyle referred to Kennedy’s “unblemished record” and said that he “has already been, and will continue to be punished far beyond anything this court can impose”.
Kennedy’s televised statement
At 7:30 pm that evening Kennedy made a lengthy prepared statement about the incident which was broadcast live by the television networks. Among other things, he said that:
- “only reasons of health” had prevented his wife from accompanying him to the regatta.
- there was “no truth whatever to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct” regarding Kennedy’s and Kopechne’s behavior that evening.
- he “was not driving under the influence of liquor”.
- his conduct for the hours immediately following the accident “made no sense to [him] at all”.
- his doctors had informed him that he had suffered cerebral concussion and shock, but he did not seek to use his medical condition to escape responsibility for his actions.
- he “regard[ed] as indefensible that fact that [he] did not report the accident to the police immediately”.
- instead of notifying the authorities immediately, Kennedy “requested the help of two friends, Joe Gargan and Paul Markham, and directed them to return immediately to the scene with [him] (it then being sometime after midnight) in order to undertake a new effort to dive down and locate Miss Kopechne”.
- “[a]ll kinds of scrambled thoughts” went through his mind after the accident, including “whether the girl might still be alive somewhere out of that immediate area”, “whether some awful curse actually did hang over all the Kennedys”, “whether there was some justifiable reason for [him] to doubt what had happened and to delay [his] report”, and “whether somehow the awful weight of this incredible incident might in some way pass from [his] shoulders”.
- he was overcome “by a jumble of emotions - grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock”.
- having instructed Gargan and Markham “not to alarm Mary Jo’s friends that night”, Kennedy returned to the ferry with the two men, and then “suddenly jumped into the water and impulsively swam across, nearly drowning once again in the effort, returning to [his] hotel around 2 a.m. and collapsed in [his] room”.
Kennedy went on to ask the people of Massachusetts for their “advice and opinion” as to whether he should resign, and ended by quoting a passage from his brother John F. Kennedy’s book Profiles in Courage.
Autopsy
The medical examiner, Dr Donald Mills, was satisfied that the cause of death was accidental drowning. He signed a death certificate to that effect and released Kopechne’s body to her family without ordering an autopsy. Later, on September 18, District Attorney Dinis attempted to secure an exhumation of Kopechne’s body in order to perform a belated autopsy, citing blood found on Kopechne’s skirt and in her mouth and nose “which may or may not be consistent with death by drowning”. The reported discovery of the blood was made when her clothes were turned over to authorities by the funeral director.
A Pennsylvania court under Judge Bernard Brominski held a hearing on the request on October 20-21. The request was opposed by Kopechne’s parents. Eventually Judge Brominsky ruled against the exhumation on December 10, saying that there was “no evidence” that “anything other than drowning had caused the death of Mary Jo Kopechne”.
Inquest
The inquest into Kopechne’s death took place in Edgartown in January 1970. At the request of Kennedy’s lawyers, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered that it be conducted in secret. The 763-page transcript of the inquest was released four months later. Judge James A. Boyle presided at the inquest. Among Judge Boyle’s conclusions in his inquest report were the following:
- the accident occurred “between 11:30 p.m. on July 18 and 1:00 a.m. on July 19″.
- “Kopechne and Kennedy did not intend to drive to the ferry slip and his turn onto Dike Road had been intentional”.
- “A speed of twenty miles per hour as Kennedy testified to operating the car as large as his Oldsmobile would be at least negligent and possibly reckless.”
- “For some reason not apparent from [Kennedy]’s testimony, he failed to exercise due care as he approached the bridge.”
- “There is probable cause to believe that Edward M. Kennedy operated his motor vehicle negligently … and that such operation appears to have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.”
Under Massachusetts law Boyle, having found “probable cause” that Kennedy had committed a crime, could have issued a warrant for his arrest, but he did not do so. District Attorney Dinis chose not to pursue Kennedy for manslaughter, despite Judge Boyle’s conclusions.
The Kopechne family did not bring any legal action against Senator Kennedy, but they did receive a payment of $90,904 from the Senator personally and $50,000 from his insurance company.The Kopechnes later explained their decision to not take legal action by saying that “We figured that people would think we were looking for blood money.”
Grand Jury
On April 6 1970, Dukes County Grand Jury assembled in special session to consider Kopechne’s death. Judge Wilfred Paquet instructed the members of the grand jury that they could consider only those matters brought to their attention by the superior court, the district attorney or their own personal knowledge. Citing the orders of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Paquet told the grand jury that it could not see the evidence or Judge Boyle’s report from the inquest (which at that time were still impounded). District Attorney Dinis, who had attended the inquest and seen Judge Boyle’s report, told the grand jury that there was not enough evidence to indict Senator Kennedy on potential charges of manslaughter, perjury or driving to endanger. The grand jury called four witnesses who had not testified at the inquest: they testified for a total of 20 minutes, but no indictments were issued.
Fatal Accident Hearing
On July 23 1969, the Registrar of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles informed Senator Kennedy that his license would be suspended until a statutory hearing could be held on the accident. This suspension was required by Massachusetts law in any fatal motor accident where there were no witnesses. The in camera hearing was held on May 18, 1970. It found that “operation was too fast for existing conditions” in the accident, On May 27 the Registrar informed Sen. Kennedy in a letter that “I am unable to find that the fatal accident in which a motor vehicle operated by you was involved, was without serious fault on your part”, and that as a result, his driver’s license was suspended for a further six months.
It is widely believed that the Chappaquiddick incident was the major factor in Kennedy’s decision not to run for president in 1972.The case resulted in much satire of Kennedy, including a National Lampoon page showing a floating Volkswagen Beetle with the remark that Kennedy would have been elected president had he been driving a Beetle that night; this satire resulted in legal action by Volkswagen, claiming unauthorized use of its trademark.
Ted Kennedy challenged incumbent President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination in the 1980 U.S. presidential election. On November 4, 1979, CBS aired a one-hour television special entitled “Teddy” presented by Roger Mudd. The program consisted of an interview with Kennedy, interspersed with visuals. Much of the show was devoted to the Chappaquiddick incident.During the interview Mudd repeatedly questioned Kennedy about the incident, and at one point directly accused him of lying. During the interview, Kennedy also hurt himself by giving what was considered an incoherent answer to the question “Why do you want to be President?”, and by calling the US-supported Shah of Iran “one of the most violent regimes in the history of mankind”. “Teddy” is credited by several sources with inflicting serious political damage on Kennedy.The Senator went on to lose the nomination to Carter, but has continued to serve on the Senate since then; he is still a member as of 2009, despite health problems.
Information obtained from www.wikipedia.org
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March 20th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Lets hope he rots in hell for his actions
April 17th, 2009 at 10:42 am
An independent, modern forensic investigation proves Ted wasn’t driving and could not have been in the front passenger seat. Mary Jo died from crushing chest injuries, the kind sustained from hitting the steering wheel. Had she, or Kennedy for that matter, been in the front passenger seat, she would hit the windshield and suffered serious cuts on her face and upper body. She had none. Neither did Ted.
That puts him in the back seat, probably asleep, while the poor girl tried to find her way on unfamiliar roads. He grew up on the island, so the chances that he’d drive off a bridge are pretty slim.
My theory? They had sex, he conked out in the back seat, she tried to drive to where ever they were going and got lost.
Does that excuse his being a cad? No.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
its sad. one things for sure, the highest court of all will judge him and he wont have his dirty political friends and lawyers to protect him. Everything will be clearly known.
July 20th, 2009 at 9:10 am
[...] can peruse this linked detail (which, other than having an unacceptable title, does a very good job of cataloging what happened) [...]
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:38 am
“Cato” seems to have devined that MJ had “crushing chest injuries” the kind sustained from “hitting the steering wheel”.
I’m curious how he came upon these “facts” since no autopsy was ever allowed by Teddy the Ladykiller.
I’m guessing Teddy drugged & raped MJ, and drove off the bridge and left her there to drown while he went home to sleep of his booze/drugs and to make sure the potential plaintiff was good and dead.
But I’m just a cynic from knowing this cretinous clan of moral degenrates all my life.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Send Ted “the jerk” Kennedy home to Libya to die with his fellow terrorists!
August 20th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Hey, Cato ~ where are your references for the statements (they can hardly be called “facts” until corroborated) you have made.
August 26th, 2009 at 2:35 am
What a lying snake this guy is. I hope GOD punishes this idiot for all eternity. What a disgrace to the Kennedy name. I hope his grand living style his short time on earth leads to eternal suffering. I believe Ted was a traitor to this nation and to its citizens. Enjoy the eternal fire Ted
August 26th, 2009 at 3:04 am
When did an “independent, modern forensic investigation” take place? Is this speculation? It’s amazing to me that this huge cover up happened and was condoned. John Farar (scuba diver who found the body) was investigated 3 times in one year for taxes and the only other person who spoke up was also harassed. I pray for Mary Jo and now that Ted is gone hope that he asked the Lord for forgiveness for what he did that night and for the collateral damage that took place…
August 26th, 2009 at 3:05 am
MJK was snuffed by Ted K……He knocked her up previously, and this was the perfect way to put the mistake asleep!
He was too high of a political figure to have a kid by him, or a girl with his kid, open the bad boy door of his life!
August 26th, 2009 at 3:09 am
Just look at who kennedy was friends with, Obama, which speaks volumes on this mans character.
August 26th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Justice has been served after 40 years. Too bad MJK was not alive for them. To do no time for this crime is unbelievable.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Finally the ghost of Mary Jo Kopechne can be laid to rest. Her life taken from her so the vanity of Camelot could survive! May she rest in peace and may Senator Kennedy writhe in hell forever.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Accidents happen everyday. People accidentally take the lives of others everyday. I see absolutely nothing here that suggests the life of Mary Jo Kopechne was taken by Edward Kennedy intentionally. All of you who refer to God and justice of the higher power need to go back and read your bibles. You will be judged one day too, and your suggestions that God does not forgive those who make mistakes, even horrid mistakes, is poorly founded. I believe Edward Kennedy will be measured by the tremendous good he did for those in this country and around the world.
August 26th, 2009 at 10:15 am
I once read the entire police report, along with all of the interviews and a time-line of what happened before and after the wreck on http://www.ytedk.com
But now that website has been taken down. Does anyone know of another website that has the police report?
A few days ago I read on a board that Kennedy supporters were preparing to defend him when he passed, they talked about using Republican affairs and Bush…etc.
But you can not defend or deflect murder. As of today, I forgive him. He now faces God… It’s been my experience that most folks who say “don’t judge” are usually the kind of folks I don’t want around my family. All of society judges, but some don’t like to believe that.
August 26th, 2009 at 10:22 am
One word says it all. His name is Kennedy and he is about the law.
August 26th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Sorry my keyboard is still asleep. I meant to say Kennedy is above the law, because there is nothing about any Kennedy that is about the law.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
It amazes me that anyone who read the facts involving the death of Mary Jo could defend this bastard. Would any of us here be treated the same way Teddy was in this case? Everyone knows that answer. Ted exemplifies hyocricy. He spent his “career” advocating equality for the poor, knowing his money bailed him out of a murder rap. The world is a better place today with his passing. Unfortunately, it is 40 years too late. I respected his brothers, who were better men, but not this POS. So long murderer.
August 26th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
I keep hearing journalists champion this dung-eating clown for being “a patriot”, and for “serving his country”. Frankly, I’m sickened by all of this media hind-quarters-kissing. I’m even seeing some of this behavior from people who have been long time critics this foolish piece of dried up tripe.
When someone is a tiny piece of a fecal fragment of a worthless waste of skin, I couldn’t care any less whether or not they are dead or alive. A piece of trash is a piece of trash, and all of this “lets be respectful because he’s dead now” mentality is just idiotic.
Actually, I’ve changed my mind. I’ve had an epiphany. Lets all gather around, hold hands, and light some candles for our fallen comrade and friend, Saddam Hussein, and his wonderful sons. You see, because they’re dead, they’re automatically ‘wonderfulized’, and free and clear from any guilt or culpability. No matter what you’ve done in life, when you die, you automatically become a saint of a being.
In closing, I have one final word… actually, more of a gesture…
*SPIT!*
August 27th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Ya know, I didn’t really dispise Teddy Boy for Chappaquiddick. I just hated his guts in general. Now they are going to bury this scumbag in Arlington! Since when did he win the Medal of Honor?
August 27th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Pamela is the only one who speaks with the truth of what God, Jesus, Buddha or The Higher Power taught us……were we listening? She is the true image of an angel, Bless You Pamela.
May Love replace the hate in the hearts of those who speak from their darker side, it serves no one. The answer is LOVE!
Thank you, Ted Kennedy and your family for the sacrifices you made on behalf of your fellow human beings.
May your soul rest in peace with those who have gone before you, you made them PROUD!
Mary Christine
August 27th, 2009 at 10:31 am
One of the more disturbing parts of this story is that John Farrar, the first scuba diver to arrive at the scene of the accident and later spoke publicly about some of the white washing of the details, was mysteriously audited by the IRS three times in one year. Go to the link provided above “John Farrar Interview”
August 27th, 2009 at 10:36 am
The only explanation for why Teddy didn’t call the law was that he had no idea that Mary Jo was in the back seat of his car. There was a telephone in the cottage.
See Mary Wentworth’s definitive article:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/-We-Can-t-Find-Mary-Jo—by-Mary-Wentworth-090519-344.html
August 27th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Christine - you and I would have done many years in prison for what this scumbag Ted Kennedy did
August 27th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Justice is directly proportional to the amount of money that you have, and certainly along with the amount of political friends which one would have in place too. Given that if this was a plain citizen (like me), we would be locked up for some time. Albeit Ted Kennedy has been an accomplished man, does NOT dismiss the fact that what he has done in the past is dismissed.
August 28th, 2009 at 7:01 am
[...] liberal ritenne opportuno informare dell’incidente le autorità solo il mattino seguente: secondo quanto afferma John Farrar, il sub che ripescò la ragazza, la poveretta morì soffocata (e non annegata) circa una mezz’ora [...]
August 28th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
This guy is obviously a scumbag. And since everybody knows it that means
the people of his state, who put him into office repeatedly, are scumbags as well.
August 29th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Chappaquiddick is Ted Kennedy. It is his entire life in a “nut shell”. He was a very rich politician doing what he always did, booze, women, sail boats, getting away with murder and finding ways to spend our tax dollars. Personally, I hope his death was slow and painful. By the way, since diagnosed, the good senator spent most of his time sailing.
August 29th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Good god you people are crazy. Still looking for Obama’s birth certificate? Come to think of it, I never saw one from Sen Kennedy… who’s to say he was actually 30 years old and constitutionally eligible to be a senator. OMG SCANDAL.
Also, you guys now Mary Jo Kopechne was a Democrat, right? What would Sarah Palin think of you, commemorating the life of a lecherous liberal woman who worked for… gasp… a Kennedy??
God, please save this nation from these crazy people and have mercy on our souls for the sanctimonious hate spewed here on this page.
August 29th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
[...] A week after the incident, Kennedy went on national television to deliver a public “explanation” written by JFK speechwriter Ted Sorensen. Among the senator’s assertions were the following: [...]
August 29th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Both sides are morons. Kennedy’s actions that night should have resulted in jail time and loss of any political future. And Reagan was a creep who hated the working man and laid the ground work for lots of trouble. Bush/Cheney are also criminals. Both the right and left wing hero worshipers are dead wrong.
August 30th, 2009 at 7:35 am
The unseemly, embarassing, blind tribute paid to someone who CLEARLY committed a crime, that John Q. Public , would STILL be serving time for, is outrageous. I do not take away the contriibutions, politically that Sen. Kennedy has made, and I do wish his family peace, and sympathy, however, America, wake up! This was no saint, you stand, cry, applaud as if he were the rescuer of the universe–sad. The family scandals, embarrassment, deception, erroneous judgement, lack of remorse and America willing to see all of that as “he was a member of Camelot” and could do no wrong is egregious. Another testimony to the depths of depravity to which this nation has sunk.
August 30th, 2009 at 11:35 am
There are no saints. Only public sinners and private sinners, the latter of which apparently tend to be rather sanctimonious about the former.
August 30th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Terri - AMEN & AMEN!!!
August 30th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
CATO,
What are you smoking?
August 31st, 2009 at 3:45 am
It is really curious that a lot of info has been left out of the investigation here. I’ll note this one; A diver found MJ in a unusual position as to keep her head into an air pocket IN THE BACK SEAT. The diver took off his O2 mask to let some O2 into the air pocket but to no avail. Also when MJ was being prepared for embalming the mortician put a blocking under her back (which is the usual thing done in drowning cases) to rid the lungs of water- he noted next to no water was emitted from her mouthwhich is not the case in drowning ( she kept her head in that air pocket until all the O2 was gone -so she really died from asphyxiation. One other point I’d like to make Ted Kennedy did not have a valid drivers license but they fixed that up too. The whole DA** thing was a cover-up. It’s a darn shame but the original web site that had so much detailed information in it has been replaced…wonder why?
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:37 am
The Kennedy’s were nothing but rich Trailor Park Trash. Womanizers all, Teddy just got drunk and killed his mark for the night. The bastard should have done time.
September 12th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Just something to ponder– from a life-long-hard-working U.S. citizen–(ME)—- TED KENNEDY is just another silver-spooned-born-into-wealth-prick,–(Thanks to Joe –the liquor boot-legger)–an elitist pussy WHO HAS NEVER WORKED A DAY in his USELESS life, and he HASN’T DONE A PRODUCTIVE THING either–Think about it–if you consider voting for every single socialist bill to give the government more control over U.S. citizens who have actually had to WORK for YEARS their money, and then strap all Americans with more taxes for the rest of our lives, and more laws, and more control over us,– in THAT CASE- He was VERY productive. –More people have died in his car than in ALL the nuclear power plants in U.S. History. Don’t rest in peace asshole– spend eternity thinking about all the billions and billions of dollars you wasted on your stupid government wanna-be-communist bullshit, when you could have been helping U.S citizens, not STEALING from them and giving it to non-producers—Just like you, TED—-But you don’t know anything ABOUT LABOR –do you? –since you’ve never done any labor–unless loading scotch into your car is labor… asshole.
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December 9th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
I love my husband’s nickname for this loser - “the swimmer”
December 27th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Let the evidence speak for itself, and we find a simple theory:
1. They left the party for hanky panky in the car cause married Ted was famous and didn’t want to be seen with Mary Jo.
2. The cop saw the car and proceeded to the car.
3. They also saw the cop car, and hoped the car would leave.
(Not a fact, but most people would look around before car sex; not to do that
defies human intelligence)
4. When they saw the cop get out of his car, the car sped off.
5. The car skidded for about 17 feet on the dirt before the bridge.
(From other published police photos)
6. The car skidded another 25 feet on the bridge.
(From other published police photos)
7. The car traveled 35 feet into the air.
(Add the weight of that model car, the length of the two skid marks, the
forward momentum of the car as it hit the water and the current of the
water at that point in the tide leaves a straight line. Not in this article, but
in other reenactments and simple laws of physics.)
8. The bridge is not parallel to the bank of the water.
9. A car traveling at high speed would have made both skid marks and traveled
to the spot the car was found.
10. A car traveling at 20 miles an hour, or even under 40 miles an hour could not make both skid marks and project that car to its final destination even allowing for current.
11. It was a very heavy car that would have needed a very great speed to make those skid marks. A car going at that speed hitting that ramp would have hit the water with great impact to its side, just as the police published photos show.
12. With that type of impact, the passenger window gets smashed by the water AND PUSHED INTO THE PASSENGERS FACE, NECK SHOULDERS ETC.
13. There were no such glass injuries on either person meaning no one could be in the front or back passenger seat; not possible; impossible.
14. How to explain these facts in the simplest way? Ted and MaryJo saw the cop. They waited like anyone else would, “Maybe he’ll leave. No, he saw the car, and he just got out of his car. Let’s leave. If he follows us, we have no explanation for being on the dirt road. It will show up in his police report along with the probable DUI.” Ted said, “I’ll get out here, you keep driving.” Ted sneaked out of the car into the trees, headed to the water and swam the 500 feet to the island he grew up on. He knew that MaryJo had driven away, so no reason to panick or suspect her death. He walked into the hotel, and went to sleep. He complained at 2:30AM about the noisy party cause he was tired after swimming the 500 feet. In the morning, he explained about the swim to his friends. Later, he called the police when he heard what happened.
Meanwhile, Mary Jo sped off raising dust(police report) down a road she didn’t know. She drove fast to get away lest she explain why she is in Kennedy’s car alone. Where is Ted; you left together? Drive fast; get away; no conversation; no question; no rumors; just get away. Unfamiliar with the road, she did not slow down. The bridge is not parrallel to the bank of the land. Car hit the passenger side with the water. Momentum continued the car to flip onto its roof. The doors could not open, she may have panicked, and she drowned following the pocket of air into the back seat, or she may have been in the back seat trying to get out the window. She may have been knocked unconcious if she was driving, woke up with the water rushing in and became disoriented being upside down, and ended up in the back seat just because she was of unclear thoughts.
But, one thing is certain… No one was in the front passenger seat when that water hit the water. All other theories have to employ far fetched things.
Ted and Mary Jo decided to separate and that’s it.
He got out of the car, and she sped away driving too fast for the road.
December 27th, 2009 at 9:37 am
A couple of errors in typing:
Not the water hit the water
Should be when the car hit the water
Not: the bridge was not parallel to the bank of land.
Should be: the bridge was not perpendicular to the bank of land.
In the morning, when he heard what happened, he knew that people knew they left together. He also knew it would be worse to send her down speeding along a road she didn’t know; but he did. He grew up on the island, and he HAD to know that the bridge was not perpendicular to the bank, and had to be approached very very slowly. You can even look at the guard rails put on the bridge nowaydays.
He came up with this lie to make himself look not as bad. Either story makes him look bad. Why drive so fast Ted, when you knew you shouldn’t? He caused her death. (If he drove) Why let her drive off on a road where it is a forseeable that she would have an accident, Ted?(If she drove alone)
When he learned of his death, he decided to paint a picture of him being a caring, saddened, confused person who just wanted to help MaryJo but he couldn’t get her out of the car, instead of being an adulterous man only interested in protecting his reputation. The big problem is that, if he was such a caring man, then he wouldn’t have driven so fast, if he drove. and he wouldn’t have sent her down the road.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Ted was an is a murderer. Reader’s Digest gave an excellent account of the story in 1980 utilizing the extensive information at the time.Including Ted’s incosistencies also called lies. His only defense is that he is a severe drunk like the rest of the kenedys . He also got away with his crimes due to his filthy wannabe blue blood rumrunning gangster father’s corrupt influence and power. They obstructed justice by not allowing an autopsy. Hey “Cato” you must be a kennedy they breed like vermin. Just like a liberal to try and revise history. Teddy is roasting in hell now hopefully drowning in fire.