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The Strange Tale of Ted Kennedy and the Chappaquiddick Incident | The Death of Mary-Jo Kopechne 

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The Kennedy family is one of the most powerful and influential in American history. However, their journey to the top has been beset by tragedy. Assassinations and tragic accidents have seen many of the Kennedy clan perish and given rise the notion that the family is some how cursed.
Today we look at the life of Ted Kennedy who survived a plane crash only to be visited upon by disaster once more, though this time it would cost the life of Mary Jo Kopechne.
The Chappaquiddick incident is still surrounded in mystery to this day following the actions of Ted in the immediate aftermath.
00:00 - Intro The Kennedy Family and Curse
01:03 - Ted Kennedy's Early Life
03:00 - Tragedy Strikes Early on
03:40 - Later School Life. Football and Cheating in Spanish
05:27 - Meeting his Wife and starting out in Politics
06:30 - The Death of JFK and Ted's Plane Crash.
08:07 - The Chappaquiddick Incident
11:30 - The Aftermath
16:50 - A Legacy Marred?

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@Baskerville22
@Baskerville22 2 года назад
Too shocked to realize he should report the accident immediately....but not too shocked to make those 17 phone calls to the lawyers and cronies he thought could help save his political career. My opinion ? He was a vile individual.
@rachelstratman1405
@rachelstratman1405 2 года назад
In my heart, I always believed it was intentional, possibly because he had an improper relationship with her that would have derailed his political plans.
@teenyverse7707
@teenyverse7707 2 года назад
@@rachelstratman1405 you're probably right.
@markuswx1322
@markuswx1322 2 года назад
We may never know what we've been saved by his failure to be elected president, but I've always said the Senate is a better job. It's a lifetime career in the most powerful old boy's club in the world. You don't even have to be that bright, and Ted was the least bright of the brothers. In any case, the 17 phone calls did the trick. The Kennedy machine was already working to prevent any action by the prosecutor against Ted that would land him in jail. Edmund Dinis later admitted that had he given the grand jury the case, it would have been able to indict Kennedy for manslaughter. The irony here is that Ted probably never was in the car at the time of the accident. The only way he could devise a plausible scenario for what happened was to declare himself involved in the accident, with a harrowing rescue attempt as the excuse for the delay in reporting it. Boston Police detective Bernie Flynn (a Democrat and Kennedy family supporter, by the way) reconstructed what happened: When Deputy Look saw the car pulled off on Cemetery Road just off Dyke Road, he approached the car, which quickly sped off, as Ted didn't want to be caught drunk with a young woman in his car. Ted halted a few hundred yards away, told Mary Jo to drive on and pick him up when the coast was clear. When she didn't return, he walked down Dyke road to the bridge, saw the submerged car and realized the only thing he could do was to avoid the others at the cottage, get back to his hotel room and avoid the whole matter. The next morning his cousin Joey Gargan convinced him he had to report the accident right away, which he did reluctantly. (Local residents had already discovered the car and called it in.) One of the untold stories of the tragedy is how willing the other girls at the party were to sacrifice their colleague. One and all they declared themselves unsure when Ted left the party with Mary Jo. They were quickly hustled off the island, and later rendered a series of I-don't-recalls about specific times. Their subsequent careers were paid for by the Kennedy family. One of them, Esther Newburgh, became a prominent literary agent.. It was she, as reported in a well-known book about the incident, who actually suggested that a lie be told about who was driving the car when it left the Lawrence Cottage where the party was being held. Little did she know that in the end, it probably was Mary Jo who drove into the water. No one seems ever to have seen Ted in wet clothes that night.
@nigelapps3122
@nigelapps3122 2 года назад
He indeed was vile and sellout to the NWO and possible pedophile
@Beachgirl1
@Beachgirl1 2 года назад
@@nigelapps3122 In 1984, the POS committed treason against the US by colluding with the Soviet Union to steal the Presidential Election from Reagan. Thankfully, the plan failed. Demonrats never change.
@erynlasgalen1949
@erynlasgalen1949 2 года назад
Dear God, that headline. To reduce Mary Jo Kopechne to a "blonde" in her death turns my stomach.
@valerieneal2747
@valerieneal2747 2 года назад
I KNOW...THEY REDUCED HER LIFE TO JUST "BEING A BLONDE'. I WAS A CHILD WHEN THIS HAPPENED.. SHE WAS HER PARENTS' ONLY CHILD; AND FOR THAT DIIRTY MF NOT TO REPORT WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT AWAY IS REPREHENSIBLE. THAT FAMILY HAS ALWAYS GOTTEN AWAY WITH HEINOUS ACTS..I GUESS MONEY SPEAKS MORE THAN THE TRUTH FOR SOME PEOPLE WHICH IS SAD. THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE CONSTANTLY TELLING US 'LESSERS' TO BE MORAL, BE 'LOYAL' TO YOUR COUNTRY; DO 'GOOD' AND ALWAYS 'TELL THE TRUTH'. THING IS...ONLY TRUTH THEY WILL NEVER TELL IS THEIR OWN. HYPOCRITES.
@trevorbevan587
@trevorbevan587 2 года назад
That's a fairly common misogynistic attitude by the Americans.
@georgeorwell4534
@georgeorwell4534 2 года назад
@@trevorbevan587 I think it's said with deliberate contempt for Kennedy, as if this is the way the Kennedy's and their ilk looked at this unfortunate woman.
@superfly3990
@superfly3990 2 года назад
Well, Mary Jo was one of the "Boiler Room Girls." If she was a frequent visitor to the Boiler Room I kind of doubt that it was to adjust the fuel/air mixture or throttle the bypass valve. You know what they say. What happens in the Boiler Room.. Stays in the Boiler Room.
@bp2352
@bp2352 2 года назад
They headlines could of said” boiler room blonde blowjob girl died taking Ted kennedys dicktation.
@Velvet_Troubadour
@Velvet_Troubadour 2 года назад
If he had been anybody but a Kennedy it would’ve been handled drastically different
@mauricedavis2160
@mauricedavis2160 2 года назад
For sure!!!🙏😷
@zoeyshoots
@zoeyshoots 2 года назад
Well, he did the right thing to keep from being charged.. can’t prove he was drinking. Smart move for an asshole..
@pou618
@pou618 2 года назад
It was glossed over.
@mauricedavis2160
@mauricedavis2160 2 года назад
@@pou618 I agree, it absolutely was$$$🙏😢
@lyricberlin
@lyricberlin 2 года назад
IKR like Laura and George Bush ...Oh wait they got away with it
@RAWDernison1
@RAWDernison1 2 года назад
"I've never had an intimate (/sexual) relationship with this woman". Where have I heard that one before?
@janetannerevans2320
@janetannerevans2320 2 года назад
it really is about the definition of "is"
@clancy_101
@clancy_101 2 года назад
Donald Trump and Stormy?
@joannejennings7649
@joannejennings7649 2 года назад
@@clancy_101 what he left her in a car to drown? Never heard of this, when did this happen?
@stephenfricke9298
@stephenfricke9298 2 года назад
Slick Willie
@billburken8981
@billburken8981 2 года назад
@@clancy_101 Another F-in snowflake heard from. You need to get Donald Trump out of your head, you don't have any room left for a Brain.
@cloudlymars3627
@cloudlymars3627 2 года назад
TEN hours is ridiculous. You would be out of the initial shock way before then , and he had enough in him to call 17 times to everyone but the police .
@mtntime1
@mtntime1 2 года назад
Long enough for his blood alcohol level to drop down to sober. And be sure that Mary Jo had suffocated. And rehearse his (implausible) story. What a weasel.
@marycampbell3431
@marycampbell3431 2 года назад
There's a theory that he didn't report it because he wasn't in the car. When the policeman approached the car at 12.40, it sped off. Ted got out, swam back to his hotel. Mary Joe, unfamiliar with the road (unlike Ted), drove off the bridge. In the morning, Ted was behaving normally with people he met, discussing the yachting, until the two pals arrived from the island and they went into conclave. All in the BBC documentary from the 1990s.
@marycampbell3431
@marycampbell3431 2 года назад
That should read 'Mary Jo' in my last comment. Also extraordinary that the other women left the island the next day and were never questioned.
@Ishbikes
@Ishbikes 6 месяцев назад
@@marycampbell3431that sounds ridiculous. If he wasn’t in the car, this didn’t have anything to do with him. He was in that car, he essentially killed that young lady.
@monotech20.14
@monotech20.14 6 месяцев назад
The story doesn't make sense. Why could Ted get out of the car but not Mary Jo? Why did Ted swim across the how channel instead of going back to the shore he just drove off of? Why was Frank Sturgis and E Howard Hunt seen on the island before Mary Jo's death? Mary Jo wasn't that type of girl , as everyone who knew her said. Guess you don't know that Ted was almost killed in a plane crash. I guess they couldn't again try to kill a Kennedy. Instead they killed his chances of being President.
@rogerevans9666
@rogerevans9666 2 года назад
There is no curse. They just behave recklessly and pay the price eventually.
@lauralonati7048
@lauralonati7048 2 года назад
Yep! It is called Karma!!! NO CURSE but God sees what your doing and he takes care of it!
@MrRaulstrnad
@MrRaulstrnad 23 дня назад
remember that this incident is the one we know about. Edward's behavior at Chappaquiddick is indicative that he was used to such incidents happening to the Kennedys and used to having such incidents being covered up. This time, the time element precluded a coverup although his political connection let him escape a manslaughter conviction.
@MrRaulstrnad
@MrRaulstrnad 23 дня назад
@@lauralonati7048 it started with their father Joe Kennedy a truly evil man. The Karma was that Joe was alive at the time of Chappaquiddick and was planning a presidential run for Edward which would have definitively placed Edward into the presidency at 1976 at the latest. Joe could then die peacefully. Joe, however, suffered a stroke that left him speechless. If Joe had full communitive powers he could have organized a cover up which he was an expert at. Due to the stroke however he was out of the loop and had to endure the crashing of any hopes that another would be president again. True Karma for his many crimes including several murders.
@patriciaoreilly8907
@patriciaoreilly8907 2 года назад
Mary Jo left the party without her purse & keys, also did not tell her friends? Very suspicious?
@butterfliesandfate
@butterfliesandfate 2 года назад
Exactly!! That is extremely unusual. Not to mention, both his brothers were already murdered in a very public manner. He was young, a Kennedy, charismatic and involved in politics. It was still the 1960s when several high profile people were murdered in public spaces. I give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not blindly in love with the Kennedys, I'm just looking at the bigger picture.
@user-sw1ck3mr5g
@user-sw1ck3mr5g 2 года назад
Of course. God bless Mary Jo!
@basbleupeaunoire
@basbleupeaunoire 2 года назад
Yeah, that's bizarre. Perhaps she thought they were just going to park somewhere and get it on.
@melanyblake1470
@melanyblake1470 Год назад
All the Kennedy men were highly promiscuous. Their father had so many mistresses and they were public the wife put up with it. JFK would leave the WH with secret service through the underground tunnels to meet with high-class call girls. She didn't take her belongings because she wasn't leaving yet. They were going somewhere to do the nasty and he was drunk. Ted was always a heavy drinker. I don't for one minute believe he was framed.
@kenb3552
@kenb3552 Год назад
She went to play nookie with the Senator. WOW - MIND BLOWING! 🙄
@orangepurple8546
@orangepurple8546 2 года назад
It's amazing what you can get away with when you have lots of money and a prominent family. Ted was lying through his teeth
@kenb3552
@kenb3552 2 года назад
Just look at Donald Trump.
@vypr8846
@vypr8846 2 года назад
Those teeth were certainly large enough to lie through then hide.🤓
@vypr8846
@vypr8846 2 года назад
@@kenb3552 Yeah right, look what they replaced him with, early onset dementia. He can't put one foot infront of the other, let alone get his words straight, without stumbling.
@cristineconnell7803
@cristineconnell7803 2 года назад
@@kenb3552 what lies? Please list! I have been waiting for a number of years now & you that say that over & over haven't come up with any credible evidence! However, Biden & Clinton's have been caught in repeated lies & deceptions! With much substantial evidence to support! Just the facts please & not media spin! Biden lost his last run for President solely due to being caught in so many lies & much plagiarism! Yet this time msm spoon fed him pablem & hid the spit up! Thank you & have a good day!
@neddalakhdarchaoche9232
@neddalakhdarchaoche9232 2 года назад
Yes you are right Orange and purple It is a sad shame what happened to that young beautiful woman
@sabrinapittsley2304
@sabrinapittsley2304 2 года назад
I was 11 years old when it happened. I grew up in Western Massachusetts. I remembered my mother kept saying she was probably pregnant and her parents were paid off by the Kennedy’s because there never was an autopsy on her body. Her parents refused to let one be done. Lots of scandalous stories of Teds drinking and womanizing behavior in Washington for YEARS even after that accident. His wife Joan, became an alcoholic and they finally divorced a few years after this “accident.”
@rachelstratman1405
@rachelstratman1405 2 года назад
That's what my mom said too, and she was a life-long Democrat, who had initially supported his run for president....but abruptly changed her mind. First & only time I was aware of that my mom did that.
@sandraatkins2539
@sandraatkins2539 2 года назад
Just as countess lies surrounded the official explanations of the 63 and 68 assassinations, .any lies were manufactured concerning the official explanation of the Chappaquidic tale. Senator Kennedy was forced to lie about that whole incident. He was never in that car with Mary Jo.
@kenb3552
@kenb3552 2 года назад
Well, geesh, if your mother said it, it must be true.
@hestergreen2031
@hestergreen2031 2 года назад
I remember it like it was yesterday. The news reports about it. How it looked like a cover up. I’m pretty sure Ted did lie through his teeth
@akrenwinkle
@akrenwinkle 2 года назад
@@kenb3552 Not just Rachel's mother, believe me. I was a young teen at the time. That's what everybody was saying. Whether true or not, it was a widespread assumption, certainly why he didn't get to be president.
@YaakovEzraAmiChi
@YaakovEzraAmiChi 2 года назад
Too shocked to call the authorities but was able to not only call all those goons but also swam across the body of water
@tbyrdinhand3346
@tbyrdinhand3346 2 года назад
People in that community knew the real reason. He was having an affair with her and she told him she was pregnant. Her parents had her cremated a day later with no autopsy and refused speaking to reporters. At the time because of who the family was no one would believe if anyone said anything about Ted. He was a “good” guy. What was so heartbreaking she lived in that wreck for hours and could have been saved.
@VeronicaMoreno-qd8yh
@VeronicaMoreno-qd8yh 4 месяца назад
*The Autopsy was a legal procedure. The fact that the coroner didn't perform an autopsy make this case even more putrid.*
@georgesouthwick7000
@georgesouthwick7000 2 года назад
At that time, there was a Massachusetts law which required anyone leaving the scene of an accident in which someone was killed to be charged with manslaughter. Of course, in Massachusetts, there has always been one set of laws for the general population and another for the Kennedy’s.
@scotth9857
@scotth9857 2 года назад
Yep… Massachusetts has the long-standing NIKE policy: No Indictments of Kennedys Ever.
@sjjewel1206
@sjjewel1206 2 года назад
Yes...like Donald trump. He will probably get off with no repercussions. At least Ted Kennedy tried to serve his country and had some intelligence..unlike that moron who held office for four very...very long years. Since there are two sets of laws one for the very wealthy and the rest of us I think it's time to start emptying out the jails and prisons....to make room for trump and all the insurrectionists.because I am an American and love our country I still have hope.
@georgesouthwick7000
@georgesouthwick7000 2 года назад
@@sjjewel1206 No, Kennedy DID get off with no repercussions. The jury is still out on whether Trump will be held to account or not.
@jefferybogue6138
@jefferybogue6138 2 года назад
@@georgesouthwick7000 the jury still out how cooky you deranged liberals are while you ignore all the democrats crimes watch fox don't watch liberal propaganda
@rachelstratman1405
@rachelstratman1405 2 года назад
You are SO right! I was acquainted with the chief of police on the island at that time. It is very easy to believe he was sympathetic to "poor" Teddy.
@chanimarie6692
@chanimarie6692 2 года назад
I honestly don't have much respect for the Kennedy men; they put their wives through hell.
@Audriene
@Audriene 2 года назад
Nobody forced them into marriage nor to stay.
@whowantswaffles
@whowantswaffles 2 года назад
@@Audriene is that meant to be an excuse for shitty husbands?
@simonvanderheijden432
@simonvanderheijden432 2 года назад
@@whowantswaffles Probably not. But the women stayed because they loved the money, the power and the status that came with the "job". So they lived with the indiscretions of their spouses. That's a fact, deal with it.
@hydrolito
@hydrolito 2 года назад
Wasn't safe to ride in a car, an airplane, go skiing or date a Kennedy.
@mnlpo5517
@mnlpo5517 2 года назад
@@simonvanderheijden432 or they were women of their time and powerless. Firstly women couldn’t have credit in their name until the late 1970’s. There was an incredible power imbalance in the average marriage. Do you think Joe Sr would of allowed any of the wives to leave and risk the reputation of his family. They were trapped in those relationships. Did they enjoy the fame, money and notoriety? Probably but not any more than their spouses did
@abbymonta650
@abbymonta650 2 года назад
It's imperative to note that the victim DIED OF SUFFOCATION, meaning she ran out of oxygen in the cab of the car! If Kennedy hadn't gone to sleep but had instead insisted on rescue measures, she wouldn't have died!!! Absolutely deplorable and disgusting!
@richardfabacher3705
@richardfabacher3705 2 года назад
This is why the judge denied an autopsy and sealed coroner's jury inquest results for 25 years. He was a Kennedy stooge. Her body was found (rigor mortis) clutching the rear seat back, head in the air bubble (oxygen used up) in the back window. While she was suffocating, Teddy was with his minions figuring how to cover-up this.
@susanford2388
@susanford2388 2 года назад
Yes, you are so right. She suffered. Was no doubt petrified & hoping he had gone to get help. Yet people still voted for him. 1969 to 2009 he lived another 40 years & enjoyed being a Senator because people voted for him. He knew he would never be President but somehow being a senator who leaves the scene of an accident is ok. Wow. Heinous act of cruelty. A pathetic human being was Ted K.
@bumblebee4252
@bumblebee4252 2 года назад
Oh that's so sad :'(
@kenb3552
@kenb3552 2 года назад
It's imperative to note that is NOT correct. Donald Mills signed the death certificate, listing cause of death as "accidental drowning" - NO suffocation. Look it up. Making false accusations at an other's expense is absolutely deplorable and disgusting. It is also a direct violation of the 9th Commandment.
@susanford2388
@susanford2388 2 года назад
@@kenb3552 Accidental Death. HHmmmm!!! I think not. This Donald Mills was either having his arm twisted or was as corrupt as the odious Ted Kennedy. She was found at the back of the car - FACT look it up. Who only loses their license for 6 months after leaving the scene of an accident, which results in the death of a passenger & fails to notify the authorities? Who.? That was pathetic. She was still dead when he managed to continue driving again. Pathetic. Just google punishment for those failures. See what the ramifications are. Have a nice day.
@nokomarie1963
@nokomarie1963 2 года назад
All I remember of him was him calling up the pharmacy where I worked to scream at me for leaving his prescription delivery on his mother Rose's doorstep rather than his in the "Kennedy Compound." It's not like the houses were labeled or anything. Jerk
@librarymouse567
@librarymouse567 2 года назад
Probably his medicine for his STD, bahahaha, he got upset his mommy found out
@borninmassteaparty3132
@borninmassteaparty3132 2 года назад
Yes, I met him in 2005. I was in the military and he was the biggest A-hole screaming at My sergeant and I. He started screaming at us. I concur he was a real jerk.
@vannieloumarshall7232
@vannieloumarshall7232 22 дня назад
@@borninmassteaparty3132 I don’t doubt it a bit, but why was he screaming?
@bilindalaw-morley161
@bilindalaw-morley161 2 года назад
What an awful headline; how difficult for those who loved her. “……..Blonde drowns”. It would be offensive even if she had been a stranger to them all, but she was hardly an unknown “blonde”, having worked on Bobby’s campaign and still being employed within the charmed (or cursed) K circle.
@elaineforan4751
@elaineforan4751 2 года назад
That struck me immediately, "Teddy" gets the affectionate nickname....whereas "the blonde" could have been a labrador. Really telling how much the media was in the Kennedys' pocket and how little society cared about women. I feel doubly sorry for her family to see her referred to in such a dismissive way.
@tekay44
@tekay44 2 года назад
look what they did to Marilyn Monroe, a deeply disturbed woman, who they passed around like a party favor. JFK was a pigs pig, and Ted wanted to be like big Bro.
@Miss_Wonderful1
@Miss_Wonderful1 2 года назад
Him denying anything doesn's surprise me. Those whose daddy dearest covers their ass since a young age often turn into callous monsters. I appreciate your narration, Sir.
@susanford2388
@susanford2388 2 года назад
She was desires of leaving. When he said that in his televised apology I thought nah, you wanted to get your end away with Mary Jo as your wife was pregnant. Plus there were 6 boiler room girls & 6 men that was not party it was something else entirely.
@Miss_Wonderful1
@Miss_Wonderful1 2 года назад
@@susanford2388 A very similar case happened in my country (Italy) in the '50s and, again, it involved the oh-so-precious son of a high ranking politician, his friends, and a girl who was a nobody in their eyes. Needless to say, that poor girl never got justice and everything was swept under the rug 😢
@susanford2388
@susanford2388 2 года назад
@@Miss_Wonderful1 Aint that the truth. the way of the world. Justice for thee but not for me
@gregtennessee8249
@gregtennessee8249 2 года назад
You believe trump though,right?
@Miss_Wonderful1
@Miss_Wonderful1 2 года назад
@@gregtennessee8249 I love how sure and determined you are in your own assumptions 😂 The real question is: why someone who's not from the US should give a damn about your presidents, Trump or whoever else?
@borninmassteaparty3132
@borninmassteaparty3132 2 года назад
I met him in 2005 when I was in the Military, he was the biggest A-hole to me and my Sergeant. He flipped out on us over the most minuscule things. One of the secret service guys that was driving him was cringing at his behavior.
@UNUSUALUSERNAME220
@UNUSUALUSERNAME220 2 года назад
What was his problem? Was he just trying to show people up because he could? Did he try to use the "I'm a Kennedy!" bit? Cause most guys in the military could care less who he was. He was pretty old by 2005, he didn't have any pull. Just a jerk, bein a jerk would be my guess.
@borninmassteaparty3132
@borninmassteaparty3132 2 года назад
@@UNUSUALUSERNAME220 Yes it seems that way. A fat blow hole. Still to this day I can't believe a grown man acting like a spoiled child. After the initial WTFs were over we just laughed at him and made fun of him.
@michael-4k4000
@michael-4k4000 2 года назад
I don’t believe your story…. It makes no sense. Politicians aren’t lDick’s”, they’re shady mendacious salesman and they want you to like them because the only thing u have that he wants is your vote.
@zuzuspetals38
@zuzuspetals38 Год назад
His father was the first huge narsisistic AH of family… and it went from there…..
@jackiechristian-di6sy
@jackiechristian-di6sy 2 месяца назад
I dont know who Ted's security was but it was NOT Secret Service. There are laws governing who they can protect and a Senator is NOT one of them. Security was probably a Highway patrol guy or private security.
@anastasia10017
@anastasia10017 2 года назад
the really sad thing is that allegedly mary jo did not die right away. if he had got help immediately, they had a chance to save her as apparently, she survived the crash
@Batman-wv5ng
@Batman-wv5ng 2 года назад
He wouldn’t drive the car of the bridge if he wanted her alive.
@anastasia10017
@anastasia10017 2 года назад
@@Batman-wv5ng maybe he had ulterior motives... but in reality, the small bridge had no side safety barriers and was easy to drive off of especially if Ted was drunk.
@Batman-wv5ng
@Batman-wv5ng 2 года назад
@@anastasia10017 He done that on purpose.
@abril417
@abril417 2 года назад
He did not intend for her to survive.
@cruisepaige
@cruisepaige Год назад
Not allegedly. She was found in a position holding herself in the air pocket of the flipped over car. She ran out of air while Ted was on the phone/sleeping.
@Lizzie-ve7kt
@Lizzie-ve7kt 2 года назад
Yeah that’s a load of complete bs that he was in “shock” and that pathetic little neck brace he wore for a bit afterwards was pure PR to drum up sympathy for this incredibly selfish, cowardly little man. It’s easy to figure out that regardless of the situation and if his interactions had been completely innocent he STILL put his reputation and how he thought he’d be perceived by the public and what it may do to his career before a young woman’s life.
@ytang5615
@ytang5615 2 месяца назад
LOVE YOUR COMMENT
@freedapeeple4049
@freedapeeple4049 2 года назад
Nothing strange about it. He got drunk, killed his girlfriend/date/whatever she was, and walked away scot-free because he was a Kennedy. Perfectly normal occurrence. Still happening to this day.
@MrRaulstrnad
@MrRaulstrnad 23 дня назад
yes this incident is the one we KNOW about. There were likely many more before and after this incident involving him, his brothers, and their father. Then he has the gall to say he feels that there might be curse on the poor little Kennedys.
@flapjackfae
@flapjackfae 2 года назад
All your videos are well-written, informative, even-handed, and well-presented. Also great: Your sartorial style especially when doing on-site work. Thanks for an informative and entertaining channel.
@chemicallyscrwd5485
@chemicallyscrwd5485 2 года назад
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@garrisonnichols807
@garrisonnichols807 2 года назад
I've been to the bridge where this murder caused by alcoholism and neglect took place. What sickens me the most is the water ain't even that deep. Ted Kennedy was definitely drunk driving that night and must've panicked and ran away with his tail between his legs like the coward he was. I highly doubt he did anything to save Mary Jo Kopechne who I think was knocked out unconscious when the car flipped over. If Ted did the right thing and called the police for assistance right after the accident happened Mary Jo Kopechne would have survived. This is just one of the many reasons I don't like the Kennedy family. They're horrible people.
@joeharper2148
@joeharper2148 2 года назад
Is it in Cape Cod by the Kennedy Compound???
@funkylighthouselamp
@funkylighthouselamp 2 года назад
Our family kept a copy of the ad that was run by, I believe, it was Volkswagon. It showed the car floating on water and said "If Ted Kennedy had been driving a Volkswagon he would be president today". I think it was in a Mad Magazine. It was of course pulled rather quickly. ...P.S. I looked it up....National Lampoon
@e28forever30
@e28forever30 2 года назад
It is written “Volkswagen”.
@wmw3629
@wmw3629 2 года назад
I well remember that ad!
@DavidWilliams-so2dy
@DavidWilliams-so2dy 2 года назад
Mary Jo Kopechne owned a VW as her personal car.
@rkelsey3341
@rkelsey3341 Год назад
They were forced to print a retraction to that ad. They did. It simply stated, "If Ted Kennedy had been driving a Volkswagen, he probably still wouldn't be President today." National Lampoon was the best!
@lescobrandon8045
@lescobrandon8045 2 года назад
You should've touched on the fact that the Father was expelled from England for being a Nazi sympathizer.
@WellINever
@WellINever 2 года назад
An episode on Joe Sr is in the works. Lots to mention in that one!
@nunyabusiness7490
@nunyabusiness7490 2 года назад
@@WellINever Fantastic! I can't wait
@NiecieSavo
@NiecieSavo 2 года назад
He mentioned it in the episode with Rosemary Kennedy
@Friendofstfrank
@Friendofstfrank 2 года назад
They did not live in England. They were Irish.
@lescobrandon8045
@lescobrandon8045 2 года назад
@@Friendofstfrank Yes they did, Joe was the US ambassador to England. Open a freaking book cheif.
@garethmorgan3665
@garethmorgan3665 2 года назад
Thanks for the video. I'm fascinated by this period but wasn't fully aware of the details of this particular incident. That clip of Kennedy denying rumours and defending the ' character' of the victim and the other woman was creepy and hypocritical though. These were young woman surrounded by powerful , charismatic and good looking men who themselves were notorious for not being able to keep it in their trousers. Of course there was plenty of hooking up going on to use the modern parlance.
@tekay44
@tekay44 2 года назад
Ted Kennedy was one of the more vile people to come out of Mass, and we have had plenty. wtf. and people worshipped this clan of swine.
@OmmerSyssel
@OmmerSyssel Год назад
Horny women sure find ways to get what they desire ... 🧚‍♀️
@marshallmom1962
@marshallmom1962 2 года назад
He shouldve been prosecuted, found guilty and sent to prison. Kennedys have always gotten away w illegal activities.
@denisenoe7746
@denisenoe7746 2 года назад
Yes! This was manslaughter!
@teamcougars
@teamcougars 2 года назад
He was found guilty in the court of public opinion that’s why he was never elected President.
@teenac718
@teenac718 11 месяцев назад
Really. 2 were assassinated.
@moviesgalore9947
@moviesgalore9947 2 года назад
He was a coward he panicked and he should have gone to prison for 20 years.
@MrRaulstrnad
@MrRaulstrnad 23 дня назад
or the even more horrible thing might be that it was intentional
@starguy2718
@starguy2718 2 года назад
"Teddy, I think I'm pregnant." "Don't worry, Mary Jo; we'll cross that bridge when we get to it."
@dantelovesbeatrice
@dantelovesbeatrice 18 дней назад
To quote Ted: "I was very pond of her."
@julecaesara482
@julecaesara482 2 года назад
this channel is a fantastic rabbit hole. I've been watching nothing but episodes from this channel. This one is defenitely sus, one wonders what Ted was trying to cover up so badly
@censorshipsucks9493
@censorshipsucks9493 2 года назад
And Taxachusetts kept re-electing the drunken murderer until his death.
@Queenie97
@Queenie97 2 года назад
The peekaboo Prince Andrew gave me a chuckle. I really like your channel, and I would love to hear you take a deep dive into other controversial families.
@ytang5615
@ytang5615 2 месяца назад
Well, I never knew this Chanel was so interesting. And I like the way its told, good voice, speed, no hype or disturbing background music.
@katemaloney4296
@katemaloney4296 2 года назад
Although, not blessed with intelligence or gravitas, Ted did have good luck. Between the Moon Landing and Tate-LaBianca murders, Chappaquidick was literally relegated to the back page and afforded him some time to gather his wits and let his handlers make up a good story.
@rkelsey3341
@rkelsey3341 Год назад
And he had the good luck to make to to Spring Break in Florida for over 30 years!
@Theaddora
@Theaddora 2 года назад
I believe Teddy could have saved that girl if he had quit worrying about his political career and gone back in the water!!
@katemaloney4296
@katemaloney4296 2 года назад
Unfortunately, it never crossed his mind to save her.
@hydrolito
@hydrolito 2 года назад
He was rich he could have hired a driver that wasn't drunk.
@kenb3552
@kenb3552 2 года назад
or, just as equally, you could believe that he couldn't have saved her. Why you chose one version over the other, only you can say.
@Theaddora
@Theaddora 2 года назад
@@kenb3552 how can you still live in a dreamworld with what is happening in this country brought to you by his party....the democrats!!
@cristineconnell7803
@cristineconnell7803 2 года назад
@@kenb3552 Divers at the scene said it! Media hid
@DerekStevens
@DerekStevens 2 года назад
Your version of the story is better than the movie's. Thanks again for all the work you do.
@Baysidemom2
@Baysidemom2 2 года назад
I get so excited when I see one of your videos post. great work as usual Paul
@edenaralph7688
@edenaralph7688 2 года назад
PS: Love your channel. No drama, no speculation, just the facts.
@carlmoore3215
@carlmoore3215 2 года назад
Despite the drowning mentioned in the headline, a police diver testified that Mary Jo was able to get to an air bubble, then suffocated as its oxygen ran out.
@valmacclinchy
@valmacclinchy 2 года назад
Can't imagine her fear...absolutely horrible!
@jackfullerton5762
@jackfullerton5762 2 года назад
How do they determine she got to the air bubble? Obviously a vain attempt to cast it in the scope of being her fault.
@carlmoore3215
@carlmoore3215 2 года назад
@@jackfullerton5762 Try taking a closer look at the diver's testimony. He found Mary Jo in a position where she would have climbed to get her face into an air bubble.
@user-rd6dh4hq1j
@user-rd6dh4hq1j 2 года назад
That's even more horrific! Being left to die! That's just gruesome!
@scarysara9364
@scarysara9364 2 года назад
I heard in another video talking about this case; that the autopsy done on Mary's body only found about “ _Half_ a teacup of water inside of her”, which is apparently not enough to make the victim drown.
@limeycheesehead97
@limeycheesehead97 2 года назад
I onlhy recently found your channel and I've been binging through your episodes. You and your team do a brilliant job of presenting - keep up the great work.
@soltera
@soltera 2 года назад
and yet another great story from a great storyteller. thank you!
@imtired6104
@imtired6104 2 года назад
Loved the pop up of Prince Andrew there. I'm sorry that you didn't go into Ted's streaking episode, or the whole scandal about his nephew William Kennedy Smith (co-starring Ted), or the rumor that he was born because Rose wanted another baby and Joe didn't (echoes of Lucille and Buster Bluth from the show Arrested Development). So many missed opportunities, but I am sure you didn't want to make a movie length video about him. ;)
@worldrover436
@worldrover436 2 года назад
Ted STREAKED? I did not know!
@brianmccarthy5557
@brianmccarthy5557 2 года назад
There could easily be an 800 page book with a lengthy bibliography, extensive notes with sources and several appendices on various subjects and you still couldn't cover all of his scandals and crimes. And those are just the ones we know about.
@Deborahtunes
@Deborahtunes 2 года назад
After their 4th child, Rose wanted a divorce. But her father refused to allow it. And she was "forced" to stay with her womanizing husband. If Rose and Joe had split up, over half of the Kennedy clan would have never been born...
@sarahstanton6603
@sarahstanton6603 2 года назад
Read the book "Senatorial Privilege". Its really great and all about this incident! I grew up in Massachusetts and people there acted like it never happened. Disgusting! That poor young woman...
@danielgawelczyk4695
@danielgawelczyk4695 2 года назад
I'll never understand why this Evil family is so revered by the masses.
@brucemarsico6
@brucemarsico6 2 года назад
Because they're beautiful. Young and vibrant and WEALTHY and charismatic. Jack and Jackie 'liberated' the USA from those boring predictable Eisenhower's. The 1950s, dull, black and white, like an old tube style t.v.. 1961, a brand new exciting energetic time. Color t.v., the twist, love and youth forever. It's what americans worship, love, youth......and MONEY!
@zapdunga12
@zapdunga12 Год назад
John and Robert weren't evil. John may have had affairs but that didn't make him evil. And Robert never cheated on his wife. He would have made a great president and ended the Vietnam War and saved thousands of lives if he wasn't assassinated. And if course if John wasn't assassinated there never would have been a Vietnam War.
@vannieloumarshall7232
@vannieloumarshall7232 22 дня назад
@@zapdunga12 …So how are things on cloud nine of the childish fantasy? Living on the proceeds from the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? 🌈
@dantelovesbeatrice
@dantelovesbeatrice 18 дней назад
@@zapdunga12 "...Robert never cheated on his wife..." He just told her to look like other women.
@Gotprivacy-noyoudont
@Gotprivacy-noyoudont 7 дней назад
@@brucemarsico6no- it’s called PR available to those who can afford it
@MinaMcKay
@MinaMcKay 2 года назад
"Botched" lobotomy? Where not all lobotomy botched, and thats why we dont do them, because they're so devastating? Excellent video.
@christine4223
@christine4223 2 года назад
Hers was one of the biggest failures. A certain percentage - the main doctors claiming at !east a third- had mostly positive results but the majority of patients had severe side effects.
@MinaMcKay
@MinaMcKay 2 года назад
@@christine4223 interesting 🤔
@janeyrevanescence12
@janeyrevanescence12 9 дней назад
“Botched” as in she was left a permanent vegetable with the mental capacity of a toddler and no personality. Most patients of lobotomies were “functioning” but on the bare minimum.
@Coffee_Is_Magic
@Coffee_Is_Magic 2 года назад
I'm very happy to have found your videos. Your story-telling is compelling and I find your voice & cadence quite soothing
@lonestar1637
@lonestar1637 2 года назад
This was a disgusting, disgraceful event. Even more so because the Kennedy name protected him. Sir, I would like to see you do a story about the murder of Martha Moxley, who was murdered in 1975 by Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin. The name protected him too, for decades.
@Friendofstfrank
@Friendofstfrank 2 года назад
Yes, that is a very interesting case.
@Batman-wv5ng
@Batman-wv5ng 2 года назад
I think that was his nephew he was charged many years after.
@sixthsecond
@sixthsecond 2 года назад
Yes! That’s what I thought too
@judyvalencia3257
@judyvalencia3257 2 года назад
Wow, does that take me back! I was in High School and it was seen as him having an inappropriate relationship with that poor girl and something happened. Maybe she was pregnant, or going to the press because he was married, but whatever, it was no accident!
@crimeteetee
@crimeteetee 2 года назад
Just found your channel and am absolutely delighted that I did
@bilindalaw-morley161
@bilindalaw-morley161 2 года назад
Thank you for your even, calm and detailed report. I didn’t know Mary Jo had such a long involvement with the K clan. Although I knew of the incident, I thought she’d been a stranger at the party he’d ‘picked up’ and they were on their way to a hotel. Admittedly if he took after his older brothers, he wouldn’t have needed or wanted a hotel, a quick trip into a bathroom or closet with her would have sufficed for him! I’ve several times been aware of a salacious undertone to some of the reports and opinions. Sort of, “And just *what* were they doing that he lost control of the car?” That pond looks to be very shallow, for him to have dived repeatedly and not be able to find her. I’m fascinated by an earlier commenter stating she was pregnant. At least it’s a reason for the event.
@anastasia10017
@anastasia10017 2 года назад
drunk driving doesnt end well.
@rachelstratman1405
@rachelstratman1405 2 года назад
The "bridge" didn't have any barrier: just a small lip a few inches high: very easy to drive off, if it was dark & you weren't familiar with the area....but he WAS familiar because he spent alot of time there from his youth. The idea that he took a wrong turn while heading to the ferry was ridiculous, as he knew the area like the back of his hand.
@cristineconnell7803
@cristineconnell7803 2 года назад
The divers who brought her up said no way did he try! Would have been easy at first, instead he left her to drown slowly!
@rachelstratman1405
@rachelstratman1405 2 года назад
@@cristineconnell7803 That makes me very angry! He said he tried to dive down to the car...several times. She could have been saved by promptly calling 911. In fact, if he swam to the side, picked up a rock & smashed the window, she could have been saved. The water wasn't that deep: the wheels were visible in the photos I saw....if he reentered the car through the same route he escaped by, he could have led her to safety. In fact, even if he contacted his "people" & one of them called 911, she could have been saved. the whole thing reeks of deliberate inaction.
@offroad6309
@offroad6309 2 года назад
Not defending him or his actions in anyway, but 911 wasn't available at that time nor cell phones. I have no idea if any type of phone was close by. He should have brought her out the same way he got out or forced a new escape route.
@uppercutgrandma4425
@uppercutgrandma4425 2 года назад
One Kennedy puts a person on the moon, while another puts one at the bottom of a body of water.
@chesterswortham5197
@chesterswortham5197 2 года назад
Neither one worth a damm
@professorgraemeyorston
@professorgraemeyorston 2 года назад
Great video sir.
@Helen-gu3sv
@Helen-gu3sv 2 года назад
So happy I found this channel. Thank you 💜
@susanford2388
@susanford2388 2 года назад
How Kennedy remained in the Senate a mystery for me. I think he was a loathsome individual. Leaving the scene of an accident should have been enough for him to leave the public stage. Then in 1991 he was running around with his nephew 30 years his junior chasing women.
@borninmassteaparty3132
@borninmassteaparty3132 2 года назад
I met him in 2005 when I was in the Military, he was the biggest A-hole to me and my Sergeant. He flipped out on us over the most minuscule things. One of the secret service guys that was driving him was cringing at his behavior.
@brucemarsico6
@brucemarsico6 2 года назад
There was a foto published some years ago of teddy and some whore he was banging on a yacht off the coast of the french riviera. No matter how old he got, he could still deliver.....money and blue pills, money and blue pills...on and on.
@marthacanady9441
@marthacanady9441 2 года назад
The Kennedys have a creepy hold over the people of Massachusetts for some reason. And I do mean CREEPY.
@brucemarsico6
@brucemarsico6 2 года назад
@@marthacanady9441 I know of some people that worship them. Everything that they've ever done is fabulous. The greatest family that ever lived. It's quite nauseating. That family is like France. They sell themselves beautifully. They both may have warts but, they're beautiful warts. Jackie and Jack and Paris and the Cote D'Azure, and Caroline and John John, and Champagne and Beaujolais. It's quite nauseating.......
@susanford2388
@susanford2388 4 месяца назад
@@brucemarsico6 Regarding your "France" both John & Joseph jr. served in WW2. Joseph jr died in 1945 in his plane
@Gen_X_Rosey
@Gen_X_Rosey 2 года назад
I loved the sneaky picture of Prince Andrew peeking up. Great episode. I was born in 1976, so I never really knew why Ted Kennedy seemed to be so disliked even though he was a Kennedy.
@thebirdee55
@thebirdee55 Год назад
The Kennedys are very "disliked" in America.
@catherinejohnson2235
@catherinejohnson2235 2 года назад
LOVE your videos! So perfectly researched and filmed. And then there are your mustaches - world class! And your calm voice. Love it all.
@ananananabop
@ananananabop 2 года назад
Very interesting video! I would definitely be interested in learning about other controversial powerful families’s histories.
@jamesmiller9923
@jamesmiller9923 2 года назад
I'm always pleased to see another video from you!
@georgeorwell4534
@georgeorwell4534 2 года назад
While this is excellent, there is much more. Including that Mary Jo was alive, surviving in the air bubble in the back seat until the air ran out while Ted ignored help that could have been called within sight of the accident.
@jadebates6128
@jadebates6128 2 года назад
I found your channel last week but I've already seen all your videos and find myself waiting for the next one to be posted. Each one is so well researched and well presented. You're doing an amazing job 🖤
@pink1433
@pink1433 2 года назад
I really appreciate the use of "end quote". There are too many channels where I get confused at where the quote ended. So many channels run quotes and their own opinions together.
@pumpupjam9648
@pumpupjam9648 2 года назад
That whole family perhaps with exception to the daughters, starting from the father, thru his living sons, received their due recompense! Two surviving sons assassinated, the last one had a brain tumor, even though years had passed after he left the scene of that bridge. He couldn't have been that drunk. Maybe he had affair with the lady and realized what have I done moment and decided to take the long way home and cross that bridge that he knew was busted up. And it wasn't that deep in the water. He left her in there knowing that she would drown and he would appeal on people's sympathy. Glad none of their grandchildren in politics.
@CaptainPikeachu
@CaptainPikeachu 2 года назад
We do have Kennedy grandchildrens and great grandkids in politics though. They just aren’t as prominent as JFK or RFK or even Ted Kennedy.
@kayevans2964
@kayevans2964 2 года назад
If ever there was a doomed family it's the Kennedy's. Brilliant content, thank you 👏
@wwc51450
@wwc51450 2 года назад
Mary Jo Kopechne was doomed, but she didn't have to die. She could have been rescued with a single phone call. Thankfully, Teddy was never elected President.
@worldrover436
@worldrover436 2 года назад
and they SO deserve what Fate has given them
@lorenepperson2678
@lorenepperson2678 2 года назад
Oh And In 1980 He Wanted To Run Against James Earl Carter jr, (Incumbent) For The Democratic Nomination For President And Carter Said Kennedy Run's I'll Whip His #s s And Carter Did But Was Destroyed In Election By Ronald Reagan 44 States Carter 6 States
@lorenepperson2678
@lorenepperson2678 2 года назад
Cted
@lorenepperson2678
@lorenepperson2678 2 года назад
And Reagan's Party Took Senate Including From My 🏠 State Minnesota Which Is So Liberal Can't Imagine Carried Two Republicans To The Senate First Since Eisenhower Mike Wallace Asked Ted Kennedy Point Blank Why Do You Think U Deserve To Be President of The United states? President Carter Brought Up Chappaquiddick Unteen Many Times Best Thing Carter Mondale Administration Could So In From Minnesota But Glad Mondale Never get Elected President He Ran Against Reagan Because Reagan Was Popular In Mn Mondale Beat Reagan By Almost 3,000 Votes In His Home State Of Mn Check History He Also Didn't Get Elected Senator In 2002 When Paul Wellstone Got Killed In Plane Crash The Students At University Of Minnesota Turned It Into A Political Rally His Death It Was Disgusting I Wish They Democratic Party In Minnesota Would Go Away
@davesuiter
@davesuiter 2 года назад
HISTORICAL FACT: The Kennedy/Kopechne incident happened the same week that man landed on the moon in 1969; it took 2nd page news in all the papers. Side note, physicists have debated the speed of the car adequate to propel her stockings into the glove box.
@dantelovesbeatrice
@dantelovesbeatrice 18 дней назад
A further fact: due to the "Van-Allen Radiation-Belt" - no-one has been to the moon!
@bobwallace1880
@bobwallace1880 2 года назад
When I saw him in the neck brace claiming to be the victim, I left the democrat party because no one in the party would come to Mary-Jo's defense. It was manslaughter if not worse.
@gregwatson8219
@gregwatson8219 2 года назад
RIP Mary
@lyricberlin
@lyricberlin 2 года назад
well the couldn't physically assassinate a 3rd so the did the character assassination. No surprise here. He was obviously drugged.
@susanford2388
@susanford2388 2 года назад
It was manslaughter. Negligence. Leaving the scene of an accident is a crime. The whole sorry saga of Chappaquiddick is just that a sorry saga of police, lawyers & judges being paid off. He only had to relinquish his license for 6 months. OMG. I had a transatlantic flight in Jan 1990 I needed a thick book, I saw it in the airport & read it cover to cover. Awful family. Negligent law enforcement & judicial system. A tragedy for Mr. & Mrs. Kopechne. She was their only child.
@anderander5662
@anderander5662 2 года назад
Only gotten worse since then
@kelrogers8480
@kelrogers8480 2 года назад
Not much has changed! Dems are Dems - remember Seth Rich!
@crashcorrigan9733
@crashcorrigan9733 2 года назад
I was a Kennedy fan, like many in 1969. I even believed the story he told on all three TV networks that night. Then facts began to come out. It was never the same again.
@scottgibson6735
@scottgibson6735 2 года назад
I was never a Kennedy fan.Iremember yelling at our tv, when he emerged after hiding from the press ffor two weeks in the family mansion.I said"You're a lying,drenken,POS.If your last name wasn't Kennedy,you'd be headed to prison"! Thank video
@martym0on
@martym0on 2 года назад
so unbelievably glad I discovered this channel!! So informative
@grettagirl2884
@grettagirl2884 2 года назад
James, thank you for another great episode. Your narration skills are spot on! 🙂
@sarahdominguez547
@sarahdominguez547 2 года назад
Id love to hear you speak about the Rothchild family
@markbarker6739
@markbarker6739 2 года назад
The only lesson he learned from this was don't drive across narrow bridges when you're pissed out of your mind
@grettageragi9598
@grettageragi9598 2 года назад
you do when you plan on murdering your pregnant girlfriend
@iaincowell9747
@iaincowell9747 2 года назад
Or if you are a celebrity you can get away with murder. Simpsons said it: "Krusty this is America we don't send our celebrities to jail".
@m.y.o.b.724
@m.y.o.b.724 2 года назад
I wouldn't be surprised, if Ted Kennedy was inebriated at the time and that's why he drove the car off the bridge. That could also explain why he waited so long to report the accident and was making all other calls first, in order to do damage control. It's also possible that he made a move on Mary-Jo Kopechne and was rebuffed which could've resulted in the crash. After all, the Kennedy men were notorious for being womanizers. Maybe that's why he didn't try too hard to save her... Or the two made that turn onto the dirt road for some privacy...😉. Maybe that's the reason why the off duty deputy saw the car at a much later time in an out of the way location. So many possibilities... we'll never know for sure what really happened.
@jeannieheath8779
@jeannieheath8779 2 года назад
I've always felt like he was drunk, he ran to sober up before calling and probably couldn't help her - even had he wanted to. She possibly could have been saved had he saught help immediately - but imo he was more worried about himself.
@tomitstube
@tomitstube 2 года назад
ted kennedy wasn't in the car, after being spotted together by a cop he walked back to the party and sent mary jo off by herself to catch the last ferry, she drove off the bridge not knowing the landscape.
@m.y.o.b.724
@m.y.o.b.724 2 года назад
@@tomitstube Where did you get this information? He testified that he didn't remember how he survived the crash and that the car turned over, sank into the water, and landed with the roof on the bottom. How would he know that, if he hadn't been there?
@tomitstube
@tomitstube 2 года назад
@@m.y.o.b.724 the information is readily available, several original people investigating the "incident" believe this scenario, and it's the one that makes the most sense, just follow the events of that night and it becomes increasingly clear, once the story broke kennedy told people he trusted what happened and they conjured up the story saying he was in the car taking her to the ferry. he was never in the car, her death didn't become news until the next day, no one was even aware of the accident... and they falsely assumed that the biggest issue was the affair, and that telling the truth (that he walked back to the party) was a worse scandal. they also falsely believed that an "accident" would be digested easier, but the facts didn't line up with kennedy's story, and that's when it became a big scandal.
@m.y.o.b.724
@m.y.o.b.724 2 года назад
@@tomitstube Well there's also a letter that is said to have surfaced some 50 years later. A woman named Betty supposedly helped a drunk Mary Jo Kopechne into the backseat of Kennedy's car. Betty herself went to sleep inside of the house. Ted Kennedy wasn't aware of Kopechne being in the car and left the party with another woman. When the crash occurred they both walked back to the party. Nobody noticed that Mary Jo was missing until the next morning when Betty woke up and told Kennedy about Kopechne being in his car. That's when he notified police. It's very sketchy that an autopsy was never performed.
@ruivog
@ruivog 2 года назад
Thank you for all of your docs.
@grettageragi9598
@grettageragi9598 2 года назад
everyone knew it was murder to get a pregnant girlfriend out of the way. larry king was brave enough to say so on his radio show
@LifesPeachy321
@LifesPeachy321 2 года назад
The Kennedy's and the Clintons...and many others...in my opinion are the Political Mafia! Very scary indeed! Nothing will happen to them because *they all have dirt on each other and you can't rat on one without exposing yourself.* I truly believe that is why Epstein was killed...what did he have to lose at that point? Hillary couldn't have that, but everyone knows good ol' Billy boy was privy to all the JE goings on and participated! Hillary has been covering Bill's philandering for years!
@grettageragi9598
@grettageragi9598 2 года назад
@@LifesPeachy321 you are so right! and it’s a well known fact that clintons made millions on drugs while he was governor of arkansas! deviant democrats seem to know how to get law enforcement & the military & the ABC groups to follow their orders while taxpayers paying their salaries think they’re working for us
@beckymoffitt7705
@beckymoffitt7705 2 года назад
I have always believed the same thing.
@hgbugalou
@hgbugalou 2 года назад
@@grettageragi9598 it's not limited to the democrats. It's all of them. I only trust independent politicians that don't need to power of either party to win elections or cover up shadey things they do. It's too bad we are in this awful two party system.
@grettageragi9598
@grettageragi9598 2 года назад
@@hgbugalou well, i sure think the republicans were complicit with what happened in november 2020 since they did not demand a complete revote. ironic billions of lottery tickets can be sold & they know who won what amount & where the tickets were purchased with no problems at all
@billyboy9675
@billyboy9675 2 года назад
You forgot to include the most overlooked detail of the whole Chappaquidick mess. Kennedys car was parked when the policeman arrived, then sped off. What policeman, especially in 1969, would have let a car speed away with pulling it over? I think the police were involved somehow, and Kennedy was not in the car when it went off the bridge -how could he have escaped?
@gotch09
@gotch09 2 года назад
If Teddy wasn't in the car, who the hell was? And just where was Teddy?
@billyboy9675
@billyboy9675 2 года назад
@@gotch09 maybe the cop let him walk if he got pulled over, she drove.
@sarahewson3607
@sarahewson3607 2 года назад
I was born in ‘74 and I never really knew the details of this particular story. I always heard it referenced and how it was sketchy, but you have condensed it into a very informative video my short attention span could accept 😂 I think the part about waiting ten hours to report it is what gives him away. It’s also curious that she left without her belongings. Catching politicians in sketchy situations will always be a source of material, perhaps a whole other channel!
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@piperofsimms
@piperofsimms 2 года назад
Bravo to the host and visual of this post. The lighting, writing and delivery is superb. Thank you, Tucson, Arizona USA
@elisarosales-solis5999
@elisarosales-solis5999 2 года назад
Love this channel ❤️ I'm glad I came early.
@MakerInMotion
@MakerInMotion 2 года назад
When you'll do ANYTHING to avoid a drunk driving charge.
@suzannakoizumi8605
@suzannakoizumi8605 2 года назад
The Kopechny family never owned a home until after the inquest. They were Polish-Americans. My mother spoke Polish and lived in the same NJ county as the Kopechnys. She told me that she was told by another Polish speaking friend that they were offered money to keep quiet. They couldn't get their daughter back, so take the money.
@nassauguy48
@nassauguy48 2 года назад
I am a college professor, and, of course, nearly all my students have never heard of this incident. Of course, anything shameful that any Republican did is firmly embedded in their minds. (I am a true blue Independent, so I can say this). When I relate the story of a drunken Ted Kennedy driving his car over the bridge and into the bay, swimming out of the car while his companion remains trapped and alive, going back to where he was staying to take a shower and put new clothes on, returning to the party from which they left, and then not reporting the incident until the next morning because he suffered a "temporary black out", my students just sit there wide eyed and open mouthed. When they are able to speak, they then ask what punishment he received, and seem ready to lose it when I say "Nothing".
@VersieKilgannon
@VersieKilgannon 7 месяцев назад
This might be a stupid question- But is that a striking example of propaganda? I'm asking because the left side of the political spectrum is always so quick to jump all over the seemingly endless examples of right side propaganda, even if those examples might not actually count as propaganda
@basbleupeaunoire
@basbleupeaunoire 2 года назад
Great episode. I'd heard about the accident of course, but didn't know the story until I watched this. I definitely didn't know what you presented about his career and his role in the family.
@Hicks_echos401
@Hicks_echos401 2 года назад
Ty for the morning story!!!
@Charlesputnam-bn9zy
@Charlesputnam-bn9zy 2 года назад
8:26 Ted Kndy spurned President Nixon's invitation to watch Apollo 11 departure for the moon. Probably he secretly hoped that it would fail & crash to earth. Instead he himself crashed at Chappaquiddick.
@BethBurns68
@BethBurns68 2 года назад
I did laugh at the visual effect during the question "Are there any * other * families out there with controversial members you think we should make an episode about?" I love your humor. :)
@mauricedavis2160
@mauricedavis2160 2 года назад
It is an absolute pleasure to listen to you and your great channel!!!🙏👍😷
@ItsJustLisa
@ItsJustLisa 2 года назад
I still have the copy of Newsweek my parents got the week of July 29, 1969. Neil Armstrong is on the cover and there’s an article about the accident on Chappaquidick.
@shawtknight
@shawtknight 2 года назад
I'd put money that Ted murdered that poor woman, too many things just do not add up in his story.
@betha.6279
@betha.6279 2 года назад
He very likely made sexual advances on her but she probably rejected him because she had feelings for his late brother.
@susanford2388
@susanford2388 2 года назад
What does not add up is why did he think he could continue in politics, why did anyone vote for him again & again as Senator for Massachusetts. No one let him become President, even though he tried in 1980. But yet they let him remain a Senator? It boggles the mind.
@44alwaysrightjlp
@44alwaysrightjlp 2 года назад
Please look into Prince Andrew, especially his stay at Lakefield College School, in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada. He attended there in his teen years. Apparently a lot of controversy there too.
@stargater2892
@stargater2892 2 года назад
For the record, I would watch this channel if Andrew was the topic of an episode. I truly enjoy the class the team of WIN brings. I hesitated with my suggestions not wanting to request trash (Kard..etc.)
@nicolad8822
@nicolad8822 Год назад
What about?
@dianeharris3414
@dianeharris3414 2 года назад
Excellent story. Thank you.
@jacopasto3204
@jacopasto3204 2 года назад
the curse is that you get what you give.when you are a corrupted bootlegger buying your way into power,karma and the mafia will get you
@funjuror
@funjuror 2 года назад
So true I hear this curse myth applied to many people, but a quick look into their lives and the decisions made soon make things clear, no curses, just poor egotistical, selfish choices.
@Friendofstfrank
@Friendofstfrank 2 года назад
Or you have an ancestor who impregnated a scullery maid in Galway Ireland and then frames her as a witch and burns her at the stake.
@Nastyfinger1444
@Nastyfinger1444 2 года назад
Does anyone question Ted's guilt? Apparently those in Massachusetts loved him.
@ingvarhallstrom2306
@ingvarhallstrom2306 2 года назад
They didn't love him personally, they loved the Kennedys. They are royalty in Massachusetts...
@sarelito9202
@sarelito9202 2 года назад
It all sounds pretty corrupt, as usual... Excellent video, thanks.
@georgesouthwick7000
@georgesouthwick7000 2 года назад
When Mary Jo told Ted she was pregnant, he said not to worry. They would cross that bridge when they came to it.
@peggypeggy4137
@peggypeggy4137 Год назад
🙃😁🙃
@thomashartman4270
@thomashartman4270 2 года назад
Yes, you should do an episode on Nelson Rockefeller. His death is still surrounded in mystery.
@amberly0317
@amberly0317 2 года назад
Loving the more casual shirt looks lately, I dig it!! Great video as always (:
@JJW77
@JJW77 2 года назад
Quite an enjoyable excellent well presented research video. Well, I never thought that I would find other great orator until I hit upon your channel.
@kirkmorrison6131
@kirkmorrison6131 2 года назад
I was in my early teens when this happened, I always felt he either got away with murder or at least some of man slaughter. I never believed his story as he changed it a bit as he told it after the crash
@kimberlymartin4836
@kimberlymartin4836 2 года назад
The shady Dupont family be a good on to cover.. love this channel btw...
@danweber8339
@danweber8339 2 года назад
Thank you, that was great
@Mrs.TJTaylor
@Mrs.TJTaylor 2 года назад
Laughing so hard! Yes do some stories on “other” controversial families. Please!
@teenyverse7707
@teenyverse7707 2 года назад
the fact that there's so many with Kennedy's makes you wonder how they're even adored.
@vilyar122
@vilyar122 2 года назад
@@teenyverse7707 it's because of JFK. He was already popular during his presidential campaign, but being assassinated so unexpectedly, and at such a young age, sealed his memory as a beloved American public figure. That tragedy catapulted the family into the ranks of royalty in the American people's eyes, and their love for him naturally extended to his family. We aren't taught about the other Kennedys and their exploits in school; we're taught the horror of JFK's death by people who lived through it.
@cristineconnell7803
@cristineconnell7803 2 года назад
@@teenyverse7707 because JFK, who was killed along with Bobby because they were actually bringing light to alot of corruption & willing to help the civil rights movement! LBJ, Hoover, etc extreme racists that couldn't have that, & made great profit off Vietnam! Etc etc
@mariedewitt5033
@mariedewitt5033 2 года назад
@@vilyar122 JFK was pretty awful,too. Jackie classed him up a lot, but lots of scandal to go around.
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