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2023-07-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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

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Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-07-18 09:01|| || Front Page|| [9 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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