Chappaquiddick
Chappaquiddick, when will the truth be told? On the night of 18/19 July 1969, twelve people attended a no-spouces party (Meyer Macon Morehouse et al.) on Chappaquiddick, a small island off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Two of the partygoers fell victim to a continuous deception. Mary Jo Kopechne who would have not lost her life but for the inexcusable misconduct of Ted Kennedy. The other partygoer, Senator Ted Kennedy, lost his chance of ever reaching the White House due to his web of lies. Bobby Kennedy's Presidential campaign had been ably assisted by the "Boiler room girls". A team of young women who were completely dedicated to the Kennedy cause. They were: Mary Jo Kopechne, Rosemary Keough, Nance Lyons, Mary Ellen Lyons, Susan Tannenbaum and Ester Newburgh. More than just secretaries, the girls' commitment made their role vital to the campaign. In June of 1968 Bobby was assassinated and grief overwhelmed the Kennedy family and the Boiler room girls. It had not even been five years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Almost every summer, members of the Kennedy family had traveled to Martha's Vineyard to participate in the Edgartown regatta. 1968 would to be an exception. Bobb
Beverly Hills: Dove, 1995Chappaquiddick: A Profile in Cowardice. Look's testimony, however, does undermine Ted Kennedy's chronology, for at the time he saw Kennedy's car it was supposed to have been on the bottom of Poucha Pond for over an hour. Leaving the club at 12:25 on what was now Saturday morning he began to make his way home. They mentioned to no-one what had just happened, their understanding being that Kennedy would report the accident, and that they were not to alarm the girls. By this time he had been driven over the Dike Bridge twice by Crimmins in Kennedy's black Oldsmobile. Ferry operator Dick Hewitt and his assistant Steve Ewing were concerned that Kennedy was unaware of the accident and decided to tell him. They said they were unable to find any, and that the group would have to stay on the island. " (McGinniss 544) Leo Damore notes that Kennedy's family physician later diagnosed that Kennedy had suffered "concussion, contusions and abrasion of the scalp and acute cervical strain". The car reversed towards him, however, and drove off at speed down Dike Road.
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