At about the same time Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, Ted Kennedy left Mary Jo Kopechne dead in his overturned car in a stream on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts.
Ted and Mary Jo were at a party of six single women and six married guys sans wives. Kennedy was supposedly giving her a lift to the ferry landing when he made an unbelievably irrational turn from a paved road onto a dirt lane and drove off a narrow bridge.
Was he drunk? He says no. Were they fooling around? He testified no. Why did he swim the strong current of the channel between Chappaquiddick and the mainland, return to his hotel, sleep, and act so casual the next morning – all before contacting the authorities? He never gave rational answers.
There was no autopsy. The Kopechne family went silent. Kennedy was treated like royalty by officials, and got off with a two-month suspended sentence.
Mary Jo would have been 69 years-old on July 26th. I guess we’ll never know how or why she died.
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