With all of the give attention to presidential politics this summer season, we take you again to July of 1969 when the modern-day fable of Camelot resulted in tragedy.
“A 28-year-old woman was killed yesterday when a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy plunged off a narrow bridge on a tiny offshore island and landed upside down in eight feet of water,” the Herald reported on the entrance web page of the July 20, 1969, paper.
That sufferer was Mary Jo Kopechne and she or he’s by no means been in a position to relaxation in peace since. Kennedy, for his half, was notoriously unrepentant — and it price him the presidency, and rightfully so.
But it began on today: Boston Herald July 20, 1969, web page 1
And the story jumps to Page 10: Boston Herald July 20, 1969, web page 10
As Howie Carr wrote two years in the past this month: Mary Jo Kopechne would have turned 80 in 2020.
Of course, Mary Jo didn’t even make it to 29 – she died on July 18, 1969, when Sen. Ted Kennedy drunkenly drove his mom’s 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont off a small bridge right into a tidal pond on Chappaquiddick on Martha’s Vineyard.
Teddy, drunk and with an expired driver’s license, swam to security and didn’t hassle to even report the dying (by suffocation, not drowning) for 10 hours. By then he’d already made greater than a dozen long-distance telephone calls off the island, together with one to a different of his girlfriends in Palm Beach.
He’d additionally loved a leisurely breakfast on the Shiretown Inn in Edgartown. Later, when Teddy lastly sat down within the Edgartown police chief’s workplace, shakily filling out the incident report, he left a clean house subsequent to the phrases “Mary Jo” – he didn’t even know her final title.
Here’s the remainder of Howie’s column …
Source: www.bostonherald.com”