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2023-07-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Today (18 July) Should Be Named Mary Jo Kopechnie Day

Mary Jo Kopechne, the daughter of an insurance salesman, was born in the village of Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, on 26th July 1940. After graduating from Caldwell College for Women in New Jersey, she moved to Washington where she worked as a secretary for George Smathers and Robert Kennedy. During this time she shared an apartment with Nancy Carole Tyler, who worked for Bobby Baker.

On 17th July, 1969, Kopechne joined several other women who had worked for the Kennedy family at the Edgartown Regatta. She stayed at the Katama Shores Motor Inn on the southern tip of Martha's Vineyard. The following day the women travelled across to Chappaquiddick Island. They were joined by Edward Kennedy and that night they held a party at Lawrence Cottage. At the party was Kennedy, Kopechne, Susan Tannenbaum, Maryellen Lyons, Ann Lyons, Rosemary Keough, Esther Newburgh, Joe Gargan, Paul Markham, Charles Tretter, Raymond La Rosa and John Crimmins.

Kopechne and Edward Kennedy left the party at 11.15pm. Kennedy had offered to take Kopechne back to her hotel. He later explained what happened: "I was unfamiliar with the road and turned onto Dyke Road instead of bearing left on Main Street. After proceeding for approximately a half mile on Dyke Road I descended a hill and came upon a narrow bridge. The car went off the side of the bridge.... The car turned over and sank into the water and landed with the roof resting on the bottom. I attempted to open the door and window of the car but have no recollection of how I got out of the car. I came to the surface and then repeatedly dove down to the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car. I was unsuccessful in the attempt."

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-07-18 09:01|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 The rumor in my family circles, my Mom being a senior political lobbyist inDC after a long career as a staffer at the Republican Congressional Committee was the "Second Passenger Theory". It essentially explained the long delay and quickly early behavior of Teddy because he thought the only passenger in the car was in the front seat with him, en route to the submarine races. Only hours later did he discover Mary Jo and put togather the ludicrous BS story.

"We now circle back to the aforementioned "second passenger" theory, the most popular conspiracy surrounding the incident at Chappaquiddick, which suggests that Kennedy actually left the party with a different young woman, Rosemary Keough, and didn't even know Mary Jo Kopechne was in the car at all. This theory is the basis of yet another Chappaquiddick book — Kennedy once groused about there having been "upwards of twenty" written about it — written by research physicist Donald F. Nelson, called Chappaquiddick Tragedy: Kennedy's Second Passenger Revealed.

Speaking with the Cape Cod Times about his work, Nelson said that he collaborated closely with John Farrar, the "the fire department water-rescue expert" who retrieved Kopechne's body. Farrar endorsed Nelson's work so heartily, he even "wrote a blurb for the back cover." Nelson's assertion is that since Kopechne was found in the backseat and had none of the facial trauma that would have been consistent with the shattered glass from the front passenger window, combined with the fact that Keough's purse was also retrieved from the car, there must have been another passenger: Rosemary Keough.

"My book is not a work of imagination, conspiracy theories or political animus. All my conclusions are based on facts published in that era," Nelson told the Cape Cod Times. "Kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident was a historic incident in American presidential politics and thus deserves resolution. I believe I have done that."

Read More: https://www.nickiswift.com/116950/really-happened-incident-chappaquiddick/

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-07-18 13:03|| 2023-07-18 13:03|| Front Page Top

#2 It seems pretty much the top benefit of being a politician is immunity from accountability. Occasionally exceptions are made that prove the rule.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-18 13:21|| 2023-07-18 13:21|| Front Page Top

#3 What's the DNC vs GOP kill count for embarrassment victims and leakers since 1960?
Whose winning? ☺

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-18 20:02|| 2023-07-18 20:02|| Front Page Top

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