Saturday, July 18, 2009
40 years ago today, Ted Kennedy drove off the bridge at Chappaquiddick, leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die as he consulted with advisors on how to save his political career rather than report the accident to authorities and possibly save Kopechne.
There used to be an excellent site called ytedk.com, which I'm not bothering to link because it's not online anymore, that had a concise primer on the events, including original documents, including how Kennedy swam back to his hotel rather than go to one of the nearby houses to call for help, how he called lawyers first before the police, how he tried to pretend he hadn't been out the night before, and how the Kennedy family destroyed anyone foolish enough to ask too many questions.
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