Isn't it scandalous how one small incident in a man's whole life comes back to haunt him and never give him rest, when his achievements were many?
May he now find what he deserves, innocent or guilty, wherever he finds himself now ...
May he now find what he deserves, innocent or guilty, wherever he finds himself now ...
Cute,James!
ReplyDeleteThis is the man who was expelled from Harvard for cheating in his exams. Then he killed the girl. Then he devoted his political career to harming his country. He was an utter turd. Good riddance.
ReplyDeleteWell said, Dearie Me!And a drunken buffoon,don't forget.
ReplyDeleteI'm with dearieme and ubermouth. Sadly all the Kennedy men were utter wasters when it came to women and he was the worst.
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ReplyDeleteJust got home maybe ten minutes ago and saw it on the news...kinda surreal because I never thought the day would come! I know that sounds harsh but the man killed Mary Jo and then lied about it, was a drunk, and brought dishonor on his family.
He was always the runt of the litter. And it was not a good litter.
ReplyDeleteIt seems possible, even likely, that Kennedy was not in the car when it went off the bridge. Long story you probably know. No doubt he would have left her there; he would have left his mother there. He may just have lacked the opportunity.
I question that he could have gotten himself out of a phone booth that night, much less a car underwater. MaryJo didn't and there is no way she was as drunk as he was. It is an interesting curse, to live down something you were good for but didn't do.
Probably you know something about being underwater, James. How about drunk and underwater?
I've been drunk and I've been underwater but not at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about the Chappaquidick case apart from the conventional wisdom that he left her there.
I'd like to know.
No argument from this side of the Atlantic, dearieme. That sums up his career quite well.
ReplyDeleteMary Jo will have her revenge, now.
ReplyDeleteInvoluntary manslaughter, driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene, attempted to have a cousin take the blame for his crime of depraved indifference: the police found scratch marks on the ceiling-Mary Jo was still alive; he left her to drown.
A slap on the wrist along with $50,000 US, and the "man of privilege" goes free.
It's been quite a while, so I'll recall as best as I can. My Kennedy-Cape information was pretty good in the day. It was from residents.
ReplyDeleteTeddy blew by the local sheriff, or deputy, and knew it would be a bit of trouble at that hour. Not like he hadn't done this before. After losing the bubble, he let himself out and sent MaryJoe on without him, not wishing to A) get tabbed for DUI again and B) be picked up with his squeeze. He eventually sobered up enough to take a swim home, and didn't discover her death until the morning. A major brainstorming session ensued with the family and keepers. This was the best they could do on short notice with all that they had to answer for. It all took quite some time and the interrogation delay was considered remarkable even for royalty.
The sheriff-deputy had a few things to say around that time but I can't direct you to that.
Gee, this is interesting.
ReplyDeleteNow let me get this right. He stopped some way before the bridge and let her drive on?
She went over the bridge into the water and he was never in the drink at all?
How did he swim home then?
Herewith
ReplyDeleteI don't know if he used the crawl, the breastroke, or if he walked on water. I assume he, being on foot, took to the water for a shortcut around the bay bordering the compound. It's a long walk around from the west, and he might not have wished to be walking the roads.
ReplyDeleteI'll tell you a taller tale than that one--the official version. Kennedy drove into the drink, in which we know his ride survived in an air pocket for some time (nice, eh?)and yet could not escape, while Teddy Houdini could. Then, surveying the situation, he decided to not knock on a door and call the cops, but make his way home--which we know he did either way--and call no one in the expectation that no one would ask how it was he left the party with the squeeze in the same car, which is in the drink with her, while he is in bed sleeping it off. Oh yeah, he was disoriented.
They didn't have much to work with on this one. But neither did Obama. Hell, Roosevelt died in the bed of his mistress. No problem is too great if you are a right-thinking man.
Teddy Kennedy was vastly overrated and the whole being a killer thing should overtake any other parts of his "legacy". As for the conspiracy theory that he wasn't in the car... well, what sort of a politician would invent a story that makes them into a killer rather than an innocent?
ReplyDeleteHmmmm - so where does that leave us, vis-a-vis Kennedy?
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of a politician would leave his car and a girl in the drink and then go to bed? That much is not contested. Unless he didn't know she was dead. Then it's delay and scramble time once the police knock on the door, and your prince is so hungover he doesn't much know the truth from a fiction himself. This is the kind of individual who has often experienced not knowning what he did the night before. Try to do damage control under those circumstances.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of a politician would leave his car and a girl in the drink and then go to bed? That much is not contested. Unless he didn't know she was dead. Then it's delay and scramble time once the police knock on the door, and your prince is so hungover he doesn't much know the truth from a fiction himself. This is the kind of individual who has often experienced not knowning what he did the night before. Try to do damage control under those circumstances.
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