"Recently, we've heard about former President Clinton and his behavior with women. It may be time to come to terms with Senator Kennedy's own behavior and the Democratic women who defended him over the years.
"It's time for the women's march to remember Mary Jo." . . .
The film says that what happened at Chappaquiddick was even worse than we think. Kopechne’s body was found in a position that implied that she was struggling to keep her head out of the water. And what the film suggests is that once the car turned upside down, she didn’t die; she was alive and then drowned, after a period of time, as the water seeped in. This makes Edward Kennedy’s decision not to report the crime a clear-cut act of criminal negligence — but in spirit (if not legally), it renders it something closer to an act of killing.‘Chappaquiddick’ Lets Ted Kennedy Off the Hook for the Death of Mary Jo Kopechne . . . "Devoid of revelations, the film instead focuses on the creation and delivery of the narrative that Kennedy used to survive this calamity—if not with plausible presidential hopes (which, it argues, he may have never had in the first place), then at least with a career and reputation intact. That, however, has an unexpected upside: It allows Chappaquiddick to become an example of the very thing it portrays." . . .
". . . What he does, ultimately, is triumph by wielding his tremendous political power to (re)write history. And thus Chappaquiddick, incapable of uncovering the truth about what really took place on July 19, 1969, confirms that such power exists—and that the narratives fashioned by those who possess it endure long after everyone involved in such tall tales are gone."
. . . "Fishermen spotted the overturned car in the pond the next morning and police were called to the scene. The captain of the Edgartown Fire Rescue team, John Farrar, was called and arrived at roughly 8:45 a.m. He donned scuba diving gear and he was the one to realize that a woman was in the vehicle."Farrar testified in a subsequent inquiry that if he had been called the night of the accident, "I could have had her out of that car 25 minutes after I got the call.' " . . .
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He was a despicable, dissolute waste of a protoplasm & should have been convicted of murder & left to rot in jail. Instead the miserable little rodent used his family name, power & money to evade prosecution & the hero worshipping morons of Maddachusetts sent the serial rapist alcoholic little worm to Congress year after year. And all this while he committed treason by plotting with the Russians to defeat his Democrat primary opponent.
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