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[Cam Ranh '71]

While most of us were in Vietnam at the time, Teddy K was setting up for what will most certainly be his life long legacy. Drunkiness and manslaughter. But unfortuately, Kennedy DID NOT learn humility. Nor remorse nor righteousness! Etc Etc,


This July 18 [tomorrow] marks the 36th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was in an auto accident at Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. The auto ran off the side of Dikes bridge.

The driver was Sen Ted Kennedy [D Mass]. Kennedy swam to shore leaving Kopechne to drown. Returning to a party, Kennedy didn't report the accident until the next morning.

Pleading to a lesser charge, Kennedy essentially beat the manslaughter rap. Of note, Kennedy has a long, well documented history of substance abuse [alcohol].

This coming July 26th, Mary Jo would have been 65 years old. Gone but not forgotten. Please remember her w/ a prayer and/or a moment of silence.

Additionally, in 1973, Kennedy asked, "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law, or is there is there one system for the average citizens and another for the high and mighty?"

Sources: [http://www.ytedk.com/chappindex.htm], among others.

Maybe Teresa and John will also attend memorial services!?

cs
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Remember: "Thinking is the best way to travel!"

[Arty Guy]

Shortly after the Three Mile Island incident, I heard a nuclear engineer quip, "More people have died in the back seat of Ted Kennedy's car than have died as a result of anything occuring at a civilian nuclear power plant in the USA." Still true.

[Uisguex Jack]

There is a very good Oliphant comic of Ted Kennedy speeding a car down the highway with DNC written on the side of it.

In the back seat is a terified Jimmi Carter wearing a full set of SCUBA gear.

Can't find it anywhere on the web.

[Nutso]

What gets me most is the man and family are rich as a result of organized crime, bootlegging mainly, but I am sure they did not pay taxes on that illegal money either. JFK was a drug addict and womanizer, Teddy is a drunk and murderer. None of them ever had a real job or worked for a living or made their own way in the world. Teddy (IMO) was behind the Kerry rise to power and helped him to fake his war record to get there.
Now this man is telling us about morality and what the little people in this country 'need'.
What a joke he is!!!!

[Jerald L. Parsoneault]

I agree with the comment that Teddy is a joke -- in fact "sick joke" might even be more appropriate. In addition, what does this say about the morals of the syncophants who surround him and the people that re-elect him year after year.

Nalt

[FreeFall]

I still remember a bumper sticker I saw in Montana,

My gun is safer than Ted Kennedy's car.

So true!

[shawa]

Here is the only thing I've found remembering the anniversary of her death. (IN A HINDUSTAN/INDIA NEWSPAPER!!) Guess they didn't get the message that the press isn't suppose to mention this anniversary.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7087_1434540,008700000009.htm

[roughfun]

That is when I learned the Golden Rule! Those with the gold make the rules. I might be wrong but I think her own parents took money in exchange for silence. FORGET THE DEAD. VOTE FOR TED. A BLONDE IN EVERY POND. Semper Fi

[wwIIvetsdaughter]

It's so sickening that Ted (hiccup) Kennedy has been on all the Liberal Media Outlets braying that Roberts must answer his questions on past SCOTUS decisons days after the anniversary of Chappaquiddick. Sure Teddy, when YOU answer why you let Mary Jo drown while you saved your political hinny.

[Doll]

Seems the Kennedy's have a legacy of substance abuse, womanizing, and dying of violent deaths.

The thing that strikes me most is that Kennedy seems to think there are two justice systems, the one for the liberals, and the one for the rest of us. We know which system he belongs to.

Seems Slick Willy took his cues from Teddy's older brother JF. Fratanizing in the White House. These people have a lot of nerve saying anything about GW in comparision to their closet packed with skeltons and evil doings.

Talk about calling the kettle black, or should it really be calling the Kennedy black.

Poor Mary Jo. I will remember her on July 26th and say a prayer that she is at peace with our Lord.
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[1991932]

What is the significance of July 26th, VApatriot?

If you're referring to the anniversary of Mary Jo's death, it was July 19th.

You missed it, just like 70% of the voters here in Massachusetts have done for the past 36 years
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[Army_(Ret)]

Heres a little more "Kennedy style" justice.

Ted Kennedy had a record of serious traffic violations. Their nature formed a pattern of deliberate and repeated negligent operation. Particularly bothersome was a June, 1958 conviction for "reckless driving."

- On March 14, 1958, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Whitten had been on routine highway patrol outside Charlottesville, Virginia, when an Oldsmobile convertible ran a red light, sped off, then cut its tail lights to elude pursuit. A license check revealed the car belonged to Edward M. Kennedy, a 26-year-old law student attending the University of Virginia. Kennedy had previously been fined $15 for speeding in March 1957.
- Whitten was on patrol at the same intersection a week later, he testified, "And here comes the same car. And to my surprise, he did exactly the same thing. He raced through the same red light, cut his lights when he got to the corner and made the right turn." Whitten gave chase. He found the car in a driveway, apparently unoccupied. Looking inside, he discovered the driver, Teddy Kennedy, stretched out on the front seat and hiding. Whitten issued a ticket for "reckless driving; racing with an officer to avoid arrest; and operating a motor vehicle without an operator's license (Mass. registration.)"
- Kennedy's attorneys were able to win numerous postponements, but eventually he was convicted on all charges and paid a $35 fine. Court officials never filed the mandatory notice of the case in the public docket, however, and Kennedy's name had not appeared on any arrest blotter. Instead, a local reporter discovered the case when he spotted 5 warrants in Kennedy's name in a court cash drawer.

- Three weeks after his trial, Ted Kennedy was caught speeding again, and still operating without a valid license.

- In December 1959, Kennedy was stopped again for running a red light and fined $10 and costs. In Whitten's view, "That boy had a heavy foot and a mental block against the color red. He was a careless, reckless driver who didn't seem to have any regard for speed limits or traffic ordinances."


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- The offenses in Virginia had occurred on Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts driver's license, but mysteriously neither the Registry of Motor Vehicles nor the office of probation in Cambridge had any record of the out-of-state convictions. Had it been revealed at the inquest, the Senator's history of negligence and reckless driving would have been further evidence to support a charge of manslaughter in the Chappaquiddick accident.

- Senator Kennedy's driver's license had expired on February 22, 1969 (nearly 5 months before the accident at Chappaquiddick) and had not been renewed.
- Although driving with an expired license was only a misdemeanor, it did provide the evidence of negligence needed to prove a manslaughter charge in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
- The license problem was "fixed" by officials at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, under the direction of Registrar Richard McLaughlin, before the legal proceedings began.
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[Armybrat/Armymom]

I still don't understand how Kennedy got to be as influential as he apparently is. I'm in my 5th decade and to this day I still can't believe that he got away with murder as obvious as it was at the time and still is.

[mtboone]