You (and I), might ask why are we hearing about this now? But a better question should be why didn't we hear about it in 2002 when it happened??
From Newsmax, an unflinching conservative internet news site blasts the headline,
"Kennedy Yacht dumps oil in Nantucket Sound"
after tracing a link to the author, a writer from CapeCodToday had placed this story in 2002.
Reading down to the bottom of the page, the comments were numerous and predicably funny as hell. Some pics too...
This bastard is a congressman for life. As if anyone hasn't heard about it already, he got a pass from a murder case after driving drunk and crashing his car and female companion into a waterway. He left the scene, went home and slept off his buzz and returned in the morning, casual and surprised when told of Mary Jo Kopechne's death.
Now comes the conspiracy theory:
November 22, 1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy assasinated in Dallas.
Longtime secretary Mary Jo Kopechne goes to work for brother Bobby.
Key suspects, witnesses and officials killed or died mysterious deaths.
June 4, 1968 Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy shot in Los Angeles
One year later,
July 18, 1969 on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusettes, after a party with the political family of now-Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy, Mary Jo Kopechne is killed when the car she's riding in swerves off a bridge. The driver, TeddyKingpin tries to cover it up, and waits over 8 hours to officially report the accident to the authorities.
When authorities pull the car from the Chappaquiddick Sound waters, a police diver says Kopechne had found an air bubble and had lasted maybe an hour. Detective on the scene, Flynn says "No way Ted Kennedy was in that car when it went off the bridge. There's no way he would have made it out alive". The coroner rules the cause of death is not drowning, but suffocation.
Ted Kennedy left Mary Jo Kopechne for dead, said he was in shock, but called his lawyer and made 16 other calls but none to the local police, Coast Guard or any authorities. He walked past several homes with lights on, but he didn't ask any to call the police. Nine hours later he handed a written statement to the authorities, but was not interrogated and was later "not prosecuted".
Why the people of Massachusetts allow their credibility to be stained year after year is inconcievable.
