Chappaquiddick Review: “the movie is fundamentally the portrait of a weasel”

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"New film examines Ted Kennedy and the death of Mary Jo Kopechne."

. . . "Ted Kennedy’s life was derailed that night? Really?

"Here’s how People describes the film (emphasis is mine):

Nearly five decades ago, on July 18, 1969, a car went off the Dike Bridge on the island of Chappaquiddick. The driver, Ted Kennedy escaped. His 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, did not.

The result is a haunting look back into the mystery that surrounds that night when a group of six women who had worked for Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential bid, and six men, including Ted Kennedy, gathered for a party at a rented cottage on the island for a reunion party and ended in Kopechne’s death by drowning.

"It’s really not a mystery. Kennedy walked away from the scene of a crime and let Kopechne drown because he was scared of what it would do to his political aspirations." . . .