I just had to share that first.
I posted a comment over at Mark's blog and decided to elaborate here. It's in regards to Ted Kennedy.
From Wikipedia Chappaquiddick incident :
On July 18, 1969, Ted Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick, a small island connected via ferry to the town of Edgartown on the adjoining larger island of Martha's Vineyard. The party was a reunion for a group of six women, including Kopechne, known as the 'boiler-room girls", who had served in his brother Robert's 1968 presidential campaign. Also present were Joseph Gargan, Ted Kennedy's cousin; Paul Markham, a school friend of Gargan's who would become United States Attorney for Massachusetts under the patronage of the Kennedys; Charles Tretter, an attorney; Raymond La Rosa; and John Crimmins, Ted Kennedy's part-time driver. Kennedy was also competing in the Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta, a sailing competition which was taking place over several days.
According to his own testimony at the inquest into Kopechne's death, Kennedy left the party at "approximately 11:15 p.m." He said that when he announced that he was about to leave, Kopechne told him "that she was desirous of leaving, if I would be kind enough to drop her back at her hotel." Kennedy then requested the keys to his car from his chauffeur, Crimmins. Asked why he did not have his chauffeur drive them both, Kennedy explained that Crimmins along with some other guests "were concluding their meal, enjoying the fellowship and it didn't appear to me necessary to require him to bring me back to Edgartown". Kopechne told no one that she was leaving with Kennedy, and left her purse and hotel key at the party.
1. The party was only for six of the women who volunteered for Robert's campaign.
2. Ted had been driven there by his chauffeur, but didn't want to disturb the man's dinner to drive him somewhere? How was the chauffeur going to get home?
3. The woman supposedly said she wanted a ride to her hotel...but told no one she was leaving, and left her purse and hotel key at the party. Let me tell you something, you get six women together for a party and one leaves, SHE SAYS GOOD-BYE! And NO WOMAN leaves her purse and keys behind!
A little more:
...Kennedy had already told Gargan and Markham not to tell the other women anything about the incident "[b]ecause I felt strongly that if these girls were notified that an accident had taken place and Mary Jo had, in fact, drowned, that it would only be a matter of seconds before all of those girls, who were long and dear friends of Mary Jo's, would go to the scene of the accident and enter the water with, I felt, a good chance that some serious mishap might have occurred to any one of them".
4. Again, she left and didn't say good-bye to her "long and dear friends"?!
Here's some more:
According to his own testimony, Kennedy swam across the 500-foot channel, back to Edgartown and returned to his hotel room, where he removed his clothes and collapsed on his bed. Hearing noises, he later put on dry clothes and asked someone what the time was: it was something like 2:30 a.m., the senator recalled. He testified that, as the night went on, "I almost tossed and turned and walked around that room ... I had not given up hope all night long that, by some miracle, Mary Jo would have escaped from the car."
Back at his hotel, Kennedy complained at 2:55 am to the hotel owner that he had been awoken by a noisy party. By 7:30 am the next morning he was talking "casually" to the winner of the previous day's sailing race, with no indication that anything was amiss. At 8 a.m., Gargan and Markham joined Kennedy at his hotel where they had a "heated conversation." According to Kennedy's testimony, the two men asked why he had not reported the accident. Kennedy responded by telling them "about my own thoughts and feelings as I swam across that channel ... that somehow when they arrived in the morning that they were going to say that Mary Jo was still alive". The three men subsequently crossed back to Chappaquiddick Island on the ferry, where Kennedy made a series of phone calls from a payphone by the crossing. The phone calls were to his friends for advice and again, he did not report the accident to authorities.
5. Kennedy was able to swim 500 yards to Edgardtown, but Teddy testified, "Kennedy claimed at the inquest that he called Kopechne's name several times from the shore, then tried to swim down to reach her seven or eight times, then rested on the bank for around fifteen minutes " He could swim 500 yards, but he could swim to help her? Two fishermen SAW THE CAR TURNED OVER IN THE WATER. It's wasn't that deep.
6. He claims to have been all worried about her, yet he didn't call anyone for help. He DID manage to call the hotel manager about some party that was keeping him awake though. Selfish bastard!
7. He admits to thinking about himself and his own feelings while SWIMMING AWAY FROM ACCIDENT, but even the next day never bothered to call about it. The fishermen found it.
Last bit I'm going to comment on:
John Farrar, the diver who recovered Kopechne's body and captain of the Martha's Vineyard Edgarton Fire Rescue unit, asserted that Kopechne did not die from the vehicle overturn or from drowning, but rather from suffocation, based upon the posture in which he found the body and its position relative to the area of an ultimate air pocket in the overturned vehicle. Farrar also asserted that Kopechne would likely have survived had a more timely attempt at rescue been conducted. Farrar located Kopechne's body in the well of the backseat of the overturned submerged car. Rigor mortis had set in and her hands were clasping the backseat and her face was turned upward. Farrar testified at the Inquest:
It looked as if she were holding herself up to get a last breath of air. It was a consciously assumed position. ... She didn't drown. She died of suffocation in her own air void. It took her at least three or four hours to die. I could have had her out of that car twenty-five minutes after I got the call. But he [Ted Kennedy] didn't call.
8. I nearly vomited when I read that! That pour woman died SLOWLY TRAPPED IN A WATER FILLED CAR! And she didn't have to. Again, the car wasn't that deep, and if Ted Kennedy had REALLY swam down there 7 or 8 times he knew damned well that she wasn't dead and that she couldn't get out. Guarantee you she was banging on those windows for dear life.
9. And how exactly did Ted get out and she didn't anyway?
If he were really in the car when it went in, a door or window had to be open for him to get out. How come she didn't swim out the same way?!
Now I'm not going to get into the (cough cough) inquest, such as it was, or the deferred sentence he received. What I'm going to say is this:
That girl knew something and he didn't want it repeated. He murdered her plain and simple.
~*~*~Krystal~*~*~
