Why Didn't Ted Kennedy Save Mary Jo Kopechne?

Mary Jo Kopechne, 1940-1969

Sketch of Mary Jo Kopechne's position in the accident car prepared under the direction of scuba diver John Farrar. Farrar believed that the car initially contained a large pocket of trapped air, represented by the original water level.

I had never realized that Chappaquiddick was so shallow. When they talked about diving to the wreck, I always pictured in my mind a Lloyd Bridges Sea Hunt sort of thing.

Comments

[Roz]

It's always amazed me that Ted Kennedy managed to blow by the Mary Jo Kopechne scandal, but ol' what's his name never overcame "potatoe."

[Woody]

Remember the air-tight VW Beetles and the ads showing one floating? Some said that Ted Kennedy would have become President had he been driving one of those.

[james wigderson]

Actually it was a Harvard National Lampoon parody. Volkswagen didn't see the humor in it.

I have read a lot about Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne but I can't fine any comments from her family.. If you know of any please let me know

[onefold]

"" I can't fine any comments from her family.""

It's not much but I found this...

" - The Kopechnes found Kennedy's evasiveness and lack of candor baffling. "We didn't even know she was with Kennedy - that kind of upset us," Joe Kopechne said. "There we were, the last to know."- "

http://www.ytedk.com/chapter5.htm

[DOMINIQUE BUTLER]

KENNEDY WAS GUILTY IN MY EYES, HE COULD HAVE SAVED HER LIFE

[Dominique]

Kennedy must have been under the influince of an achoholic beverage, he should have reported it right away. R.I.P Mary Jo Kopechne

[The comedian]

July 21, 1969 - NASA lands a man on the moon.

July 18, 1969 - Teddy lands a woman underwater.

A few days bigger gap and there might have been enough ink available to cover both episodes fully.

The moon landing won out, and the U.S. has had to suffer with Teddy for 40 extra years...

[shawn b]

I think they should look into it more. With the technology these days i know theres more to the story. How did he get out and she didn't? why did he go back to his hotel and not tell anyone? and for what an alcoholic he always was who the hell believes he wasnt drinking? he probably forgot she was in the car.

[Jim Zerga]

Most writers have the essential component of the Kennedy-Chappaquiddick saga wrong. The knee-jerk Kennedy haters call him a "murderer". The facts indicate otherwise. Murder ~ NO! Manslaughter ~ probaby YES!

Mary Jo Kopechne did NOT drown. She in fact suffocated. The woman perished while trapped in the submerged Oldsmobile sedan while under water in a dark tidal pond. It was long ago figured that Kopechne survived for at least an hour or more after the crash by breathing from an air pocket. No matter how it’s sliced, that has to be a tough way to die.

With a little detective work it has been figured that the real Chappaquiddick story was fundamentally different from the extensive lie promoted by Kennedy himself. Facts strongly suggest that Kopechne disappeared from the party at an earlier time. She’d mentioned to more than one person that cigarette smoke and the stuffy atmosphere at the cottage were making her feel ill. It was figured that Mary Jo Kopechne after making her way outside, found the unlocked Oldsmobile 4-door sedan, laid down across the back seat and fell asleep. There was no conspiracy or plot involved. It was a matter of simple happenstance.

Later that night, the routinely drunk Teddy Kennedy left the party with another woman, got behind the wheel of the Oldsmobile and aimed the car in the direction of the beach road. Kennedy, with one other person in the front and another laying down on the back seat only made it as far as the narrow Dike Bridge. With his driving skills impaired, Kennedy lost control and drove the car off the bridge and into the Chappaquiddick - Poucha tidal pond.

Perhaps it was the cold ocean water that helped Kennedy sober up enough to escape along with the front seat passenger. It is held that at the time, Kennedy did not know that another person was in the rear of the car. He made it back on foot to a point where contact was made with political minions. Somehow, the operatives got Kennedy over to the main island of Martha’s Vineyard, where he was checked into a motel. Records later showed that numerous phone calls were made back and forth from Kennedy’s room telephone during the night. He was later seen, in the early morning, having breakfast at the restaurant while casually chatting with other guests.

Meanwhile, sometime after dawn with the receding tide, police discovered a partially exposed Oldsmobile sedan next to the bridge. Upon closer examination, the body of a young woman was found in a corner area near the rear window of the car. Artificial respiration, as it was known then, was carried out, but Mary Jo Kopechne could not be revived. Noticed at the time, was that no water could be found in the woman’s lungs. Early on, it was figured that Kopechne had not drowned but instead had suffocated. Despite Massachusetts state law in such a case, no autopsy was ever performed on Mary Jo Kopechne’s body to discover the true cause of death.

Kennedy’s later contrived story had him at the risk of his own life “diving repeatedly in an effort to save Miss Kopechne”. At the time, innumerable Massachusetts residents, including me, were outraged. Political stooges had taken depraved actions of the drunk miscreant Teddy Kennedy and spun the homicidal debacle into a performance of heroism.

Despite all, the contemptible Kennedy was elected again and again to the United States Senate by the people of Massachusetts. To this day, I have been unable to find anybody who even admits to having voted for Kennedy. In life and now death Theodore Edward Kennedy was on every level a despicable human being. Hopefully through the sobering light of time, the actual facts will be accurately weighed.

In the meantime, the entire federal election system along with congress and senate requires a good strong enema. This nation needs to return to the procedure of a true representative republic operated on actual democratic principles. Perhaps with Kennedy’s final flush through the sewer pipe of history, that much needed cleansing can now begin.

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