Well, that's one way to look at the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. That's a comment from K. Dun Gifford, a member of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's staff in 1969. It's at the beginning of the interesting video that heads the Boston Globe article in that link.
Chappaquiddick (lucky place to have such a word association that you only have to say the name and everybody thinks about the same thing) has come to my mind because of the moon landing. These few days were a period of superb reality TV. I have misremembered Ted Kennedy's TV speech, though. I recalled him wearing a neck brace and saying his piece surrounded by family members (including his mother). But apparently he sat at a desk reading his statement to the camera. He did wear a cervical collar at least once. There's a picture of him here.
There is an FBI file, "Chappaquiddick," which is freely available online. I haven't had any luck at completing a download of Part 01 but Part 02 is 44 pages of typewritten material. Reporter Mary Wentworth has published a lengthy speculative article in which she makes a case for Mary Jo Kopechne being asleep in the back seat of the car unbeknownst to the driver. In the Wentworth scenario, Ted Kennedy was actually going for a swim with another of the girls from the party and neither of them was aware that there was someone in the car with them. The two of them successfully got out of the car and they didn't know Mary Jo Kopechne was missing until the next day.
Chappaquiddick (lucky place to have such a word association that you only have to say the name and everybody thinks about the same thing) has come to my mind because of the moon landing. These few days were a period of superb reality TV. I have misremembered Ted Kennedy's TV speech, though. I recalled him wearing a neck brace and saying his piece surrounded by family members (including his mother). But apparently he sat at a desk reading his statement to the camera. He did wear a cervical collar at least once. There's a picture of him here.
There is an FBI file, "Chappaquiddick," which is freely available online. I haven't had any luck at completing a download of Part 01 but Part 02 is 44 pages of typewritten material. Reporter Mary Wentworth has published a lengthy speculative article in which she makes a case for Mary Jo Kopechne being asleep in the back seat of the car unbeknownst to the driver. In the Wentworth scenario, Ted Kennedy was actually going for a swim with another of the girls from the party and neither of them was aware that there was someone in the car with them. The two of them successfully got out of the car and they didn't know Mary Jo Kopechne was missing until the next day.