1969 report on Ted Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick Island

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  • Kennedy drove a car off a bridge into a pond, resulting in the drowning of 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne.

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  • @jamesfarrell1252
    @jamesfarrell1252 4 роки тому +40

    That's my late Uncle Jim, AKA Edgartown Police Chief Arena. He passed this year at the ripe old age of 89. He was forever known as the Chappaquiddick Police chief

    • @psdumas
      @psdumas 3 роки тому +7

      Seemed like a good guy. Kennedy walked all over him, sadly. That wouldn't happen today. It was the Kennedy idolation years back then.

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 3 роки тому +2

      @@psdumas Well, Bernie Flynn and others did strongly feel Ted was not the driver of the car. Arena as well had difficulty buying his story that he ever escaped an underwater crash. Bernie Flynn even shared this information with Kennedy's lawyers at the time.

    • @zdd22fixes47
      @zdd22fixes47 2 роки тому

      @@psdumas then he wasn't a "good guy" was he! He was a spineless enabler... Another Kennedy Machine puppet...

  • @terrihenricks4160
    @terrihenricks4160 6 років тому +56

    A different time: Mary Jo Kopechne is referred to as "the young blonde." 1:35 The general tone of this report shows great reluctance at the time to subject Ted Kennedy to any real scrutiny. It is obvious that the reporters regretted raising even the most obvious questions about his conduct.

  • @KChiefs12
    @KChiefs12 6 років тому +46

    “Young blond”
    Disgraceful

    • @brekedekdang39
      @brekedekdang39 2 місяці тому +1

      Not only that, they are immediately talking about how this affects his chances of getting elected for President in three years, not even mentioning the name of the woman or tell her story.

  • @lisarose5410
    @lisarose5410 6 років тому +113

    " The young blond." No, she had a name, Mary Jo Kopechne.

    • @jonchaney
      @jonchaney 6 років тому +9

      I know. She gets forgotten in all this. It’s a shame.

    • @LovingAtlanta
      @LovingAtlanta 6 років тому +3

      + lisa rose - Exactly!!!

    • @georgesabol459
      @georgesabol459 4 роки тому +1

      Read the ambulance drivers book . In it he claims to have witnessed claw marks in the headliner of the car. Listening to idiots regard this shameless drunkard, as an elder statesman, lyin of Senate. What a waste. Yes lion is spelled wrong! Purposely.

    • @susanford2388
      @susanford2388 3 роки тому +1

      A lot of people choose to distance themselves in difficult situations, so saying The young blond does not make it personal. Like politicians who have f**ked up. They say "she" or "her". Bill Clinton said I did not have inappropriate sex with that woman. He could not say Monica as that would sting. I wonder how many times Ted avoided saying Mary Jo.

    • @victorseger6044
      @victorseger6044 Рік тому

      @@jonchaney and the Kennedy clan saw to that.. pick a Kennedy any Kennedy and tell me when they didn't

  • @joeyjamison5772
    @joeyjamison5772 5 років тому +28

    July 18, 2019: Remembering you on this day Ted, 50 years ago today when you drunk-drove a car off a bridge at Chappaquiddick and killed Mary Jo Kopechne and then waited 10 hours to sober up before calling the police. You should never say anthing about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good.

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 3 роки тому

      He was never in the car dumbass.

  • @jonkline709
    @jonkline709 5 років тому +17

    Everyone involved with that cover up should be in jail. ESP the local & national news. Tragedy? It was murder !

  • @VuDuGrrrrl8075
    @VuDuGrrrrl8075 3 роки тому +11

    Gross how they wouldn't say her name.

  • @StevenTorrey
    @StevenTorrey 6 років тому +24

    The news of the day (July 21, 1969) gives the huge benefit of the doubt to Teddy... a benefit fo the doubt he didn't diserve.

  • @rumination608
    @rumination608 6 років тому +44

    poor woman, so young! :(

  • @psdumas
    @psdumas 3 роки тому +18

    I was 19 when this happened. Too much sympathy in the news those days for Kennedy. And, none for Mary Jo. I was in college. I didn't know better. BUT, I do now. Used to be a Kennedy lover. My whole family adoring Democrats. No Ted Kennedy lover now. He and his brothers used every woman they could. And tossed them. The biggest ass there was-- Teddy, with his fake neck brace makes me ill. It was such a cover up. A wake up call for those of us who idolize.

  • @swami1
    @swami1 5 років тому +7

    This clip demonstrates that the first impulse of the MSM was to protect Kennedy's sorry ass.

  • @orion7873
    @orion7873 6 років тому +23

    This is the first movie I've actually wanted to go see in ... years.

    • @aurourasunn4986
      @aurourasunn4986 6 років тому +1

      Tobias Forge it was good!

    • @allytiffany7022
      @allytiffany7022 6 років тому +1

      You should go see it! I watched it today and it was really good!

    • @jonchaney
      @jonchaney 6 років тому +1

      I️ want to see it too. Same here. It is getting a descent review. I’ve read about this and I’m very interested in what actually happened.

    • @Zbykobyl
      @Zbykobyl 6 років тому +3

      jon122569
      but... We don't know what actually happened, and the movie didn't answer any questions.

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 5 років тому +1

      @@jonchaney Good movie. Interesting but it was not the truth of what really happened.I fell then and now Mary Jo drove the car off the bridge. Too bad Huck Look saw them that night and approached the car. He was off duty to boot.

  • @lisawiggs8220
    @lisawiggs8220 3 роки тому +4

    Life in Camelot - rich people get away with murder.

  • @Johnnyboy792
    @Johnnyboy792 6 років тому +5

    " A SUMMONS WILL BE ISSUED "...... whoa.... scary !!!!

    • @terrihenricks4160
      @terrihenricks4160 6 років тому +1

      And he ended up with a suspended sentence and having his driver's license suspended. Not much of a hardship when you have a chauffeur. it's also interesting that the police chief said the investigation was completed less than a week later. It shows you how extensive the investigation was.

  • @b1gbuck
    @b1gbuck 5 років тому +7

    it's funny they refer to her as "the young blond", which gets everybody upset. though when it comes to describing someone as "a delinquent, who's poverty stricken, with nothing else to be but a criminal", no one bats an eye.

  • @ageorgiapeach9442
    @ageorgiapeach9442 6 років тому +10

    how did he get out of the car with all windows up?

    • @ladyd8273
      @ladyd8273 6 років тому +2

      a georgiapeach l saw the movie and wondered the same thing

    • @RustyClappers
      @RustyClappers 6 років тому +2

      Opened the door

    • @Zbykobyl
      @Zbykobyl 6 років тому +7

      to open door in sinking car the pressure has to level out

    • @dereksaulby8219
      @dereksaulby8219 Рік тому +1

      The drivers side window had been rolled down prior to the accident

  • @mssedmebich1621
    @mssedmebich1621 Рік тому +2

    Ted Kennedy was injured politically. Mary Jo suffered a fate much worse.

  • @RobdaVegasMailman
    @RobdaVegasMailman 5 років тому +5

    At the 1988 Democratic Convention, Ted gave a speech where he repeatedly asked the question, "where was George?" Next month, the the GOP convention in New Orleans, delegates were seen wearing shirts that said, Chappaquiddick...where was Ted?

    • @williamwingo4740
      @williamwingo4740 2 роки тому

      I remember something similar in a supermarket tabloid (I think) at the time: "Where was Joan?"

    • @benschlechter
      @benschlechter Рік тому

      @@williamwingo4740 She finally divorced him in 1982, which the Roman Catholic Church forbids. He was denied communion for several years before the annulment was granted.

  • @southernlanie
    @southernlanie 2 роки тому +2

    I'm a Democrat, but this should have been the end of his career. He should have done some time or at least been forced into an in patient rehab or something.

  • @advertisebigforless
    @advertisebigforless 5 років тому +46

    She got caught up in that Kennedy chaos. I’m only hurting for MaryJo and her parents. She was their only child. Terribly sad.

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 5 років тому +1

      Why was she out with the senator? Found with no panties.

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 3 роки тому +1

      Well, she was out with him in a car. Whole party was a mistake.

    • @emmarose4234
      @emmarose4234 3 роки тому

      Mary Jo is one of my role models. 😢 She was amazing.

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 3 роки тому

      @Kitty Kelly One of them was in “The Bridge at Chappaquiddick.” But I had read it years before.

    • @susanford2388
      @susanford2388 3 роки тому +1

      @@m.e.d.7997 It was not a party more an orgy. 6 men & 6 women. They ladies were all single & in their 20's. Ted was hosting the "party" & he left it, what host leaves his own party, a host who wants to get his end away in the back of a car. A 2 month suspended sentence for vehicular manslaughter. She died he lived & nothing changed. There was no justice for Mary Jo. Her parents no doubt received a heft lump sum which they were not allowed to disclose. Sad. Were the Kennedy's really such heavy weights that they could skewer justice.

  • @robertmasina4610
    @robertmasina4610 4 роки тому +5

    That incident that weekend was overshadowed by the landing on the moon.

    • @kentduryea1741
      @kentduryea1741 2 роки тому

      Nothing could overshadow news about a Kennedy back then... especially the last remaining brother who would be king. The moon thing quickly became a bore. John Lennon once said about them, "If you've seen one you've seen them all". Thank God we the people made sure Kennedy never became president.

  • @sambradley1968
    @sambradley1968 5 років тому +2

    50 years ago, Senator Edward Kennedy's car went off the bridge known as "Chappaquiddick ", his secretary, Mary Jo Kopeckne, drowned, he was accused of leaving the scene of the crime. 😐

  • @MrDetroitnews
    @MrDetroitnews 6 років тому +5

    HYPOCRISY AT ITS BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @thomasmcdaniel6264
    @thomasmcdaniel6264 3 роки тому +1

    One theory that holds plausibility is the one told recently by a former CIA agent. Ted was having an affair with another politician's wife. She was at that party. They wanted to be "discreet", so they went to the beach in his car. Mary Jo had a headache and, because it was too noisy in the house, slept in the back seat without telling anyone. Ted and his lover drove off the bridge but easily got back to shore. She, however, left her purse to be discovered by investigators. The lover went back to the house, but Ted went to Edgartown because they did not want to be discovered. The next day Ted was confronted about Mary Jo. It was either lie and make up a story about Mary Jo or tell the truth and be found out about this affair. Ted chose the cover-up...and it worked.

    • @williamwingo4740
      @williamwingo4740 2 роки тому +1

      The purse found in the car belonged to Rosemary Keough, another of the "Boiler-Room Girls."
      All of the women at the party were under thirty, most of them well under; and none were married. All of the men were over thirty, most of them well over; and all but one were married. No wives were present.
      But the "MJ-asleep-in-the-backseat" theory still makes more sense than the "official" version.

  • @bryanharrison7847
    @bryanharrison7847 2 роки тому +1

    Senator kennedy are you running for office next year? Ill đrive off that Bridge ưhen i come to it !!!

  • @daauthor6004
    @daauthor6004 6 років тому +3

    I liked the Chappaquiddick Island movie. It was funny how stupid Ted looked throughout the tragedy. But only God knows what truly happened here. Growing up in the 80's, i always heard about Ted Kennedy getting caught up in some bullshit.

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 3 роки тому

      He was not in the car. She drove herself off that bridge in a speeding panic to get away from the police officer that spotted them. Ted got out of the car before she sped away.

  • @benschlechter
    @benschlechter Рік тому +1

    I could imagine that Joseph P. Kennedy, who was at this time, an invalid, had pretty much given up hope on seeing anymore Kennedys in the White House, once Chappaquiddick passed. He died later that year.

  • @georgesabol459
    @georgesabol459 5 років тому +3

    Took the life of a young woman. He also distracted from his brother's greatest achievement, the moon landing. Apollo 11.

  • @jadetiger88888
    @jadetiger88888 6 років тому +4

    I think their family is really cursed

    • @christinaguerrero1021
      @christinaguerrero1021 6 років тому +6

      No just downright disgusting elitests that literally got away with murder. That bastard should've went to prison but instead went to the senate...Kennedy's were- are a bunch of rich entitled snobs.

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 5 років тому

      Yup.

    • @zdd22fixes47
      @zdd22fixes47 2 роки тому

      Lol, happens when you play with devils and gods ! They're occultist, religious occultism.

  • @robmoir7524
    @robmoir7524 6 років тому +5

    I JUST DON T GET IT WHY TED KENNEDY DIDN T SAVE THE GIRL

    • @mandobanjoguitar
      @mandobanjoguitar 5 років тому +1

      he was probably drunk

    • @kingsports1113
      @kingsports1113 5 років тому

      Rob Moir blood sacrifice

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 5 років тому +1

      @@mandobanjoguitar Yup and in a compromising situation. We panic. It is self preservation. None of us should judge unless faced with a predicament like that. My opinion was that he did not know for sure she went into the pond. IMO he was never in the car.

    • @sonnykelley1259
      @sonnykelley1259 5 років тому

      Because he was hitting her & he didnt want anybody to find out

    • @stevenmartinek4419
      @stevenmartinek4419 4 роки тому +1

      He got her pregnant.He had to get rid of her.

  • @terrykrall
    @terrykrall 8 місяців тому

    “the young blonde” .......Jesus, ABC didn’t even mention HER NAME. All the compassion for Kennedy... And Massachusetts reelected Ted Kennedy SEVEN TIMES.

  • @leecarrizales4
    @leecarrizales4 2 роки тому

    He shoulda been procedures to fullest extent of the law. But I guess him not being able to run for pres. is something.

  • @leo78744
    @leo78744 3 роки тому +1

    Ted Cruz should be ashamed of himself

  • @kaveh-w-
    @kaveh-w- 2 роки тому

    Mae Brussell covers this extensively look up Mae Brussell Project on YT.

  • @wblk
    @wblk 6 років тому +3

    What kind of car was it?

    • @terrihenricks4160
      @terrihenricks4160 6 років тому +3

      A full sized, four-door 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88.

    • @wblk
      @wblk 6 років тому +1

      Terri henricks for some reason year make and model is hard to find. Thank you

    • @jonchaney
      @jonchaney 6 років тому

      The car was a huge sedan. Actually his mothers. Prolly had a huge engine and could open up on the freeway.

    • @redwagon1967
      @redwagon1967 6 років тому +1

      @terrihenricks You’re correct, it was a 67 Olds Delmont 88. I have one- it is huge car!

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 3 роки тому

      Oldsmobile Delta 88.

  • @scottaznavourian3720
    @scottaznavourian3720 2 роки тому

    Joe Jr was unlucky he volunteered for a bad mission. Kit was unlucky plane flew in bad weather. Jack was unlucky his ideals made him enemies
    Bobby was unlucky something j that wasn't even an actual campaign issue pissed off some idiot. Teddy was anything but 'unlucky'. He let a woman drown with no other e explanation then he was either covering uo an affair or the fact he was intoxicsted...the former would be an end to his career the latter an end to his freedom...

  • @aaronz7056
    @aaronz7056 26 днів тому

    It's all about kissing Ted Kennedy's butt. Mary Jo, on the other hand, is just "this blonde..."

  • @mclovin9578
    @mclovin9578 4 роки тому +1

    "Faced newsMEN"

  • @rocknroll_jezus9233
    @rocknroll_jezus9233 2 роки тому

    Theme for a Jackal

  • @jacobjinglehymer8789
    @jacobjinglehymer8789 6 років тому +5

    I miss the days of old white guys :-(

    • @semiramisbonaparte1627
      @semiramisbonaparte1627 5 років тому

      RACIST. ALSO HOW DO YOU MISS SOMETHING THAT'S STILL IN EXISTENCE? PERHAPS YOU LIVE IN BABYLON OR "LAND OF PROGRESS".. IM STILL PRETTY RURAL CONSERVATIVE AND THE OLD WHITE GUYS ARE ALIVE AND WELL

  • @liamdude5722
    @liamdude5722 4 роки тому

    And yet nobody remembers this because of the moon landing

    • @TexMex421
      @TexMex421 4 роки тому +3

      Everybody resonantly intelligent remembers it.

    • @kentduryea1741
      @kentduryea1741 2 роки тому

      You are full of baloney!

  • @scottbeissel460
    @scottbeissel460 10 місяців тому

    The young blonde she has a name it's all about the bad luck of the kennedy family meanwhile she's just dead

  • @MrDetroitnews
    @MrDetroitnews 6 років тому +9

    TRUMP 2020

    • @EllyB1104
      @EllyB1104 3 роки тому +2

      Ah, too bad 😊

  • @kingsports1113
    @kingsports1113 5 років тому +1

    Y'all slow this was a mob hit blood sacrifice

  • @lexusrc3507
    @lexusrc3507 6 років тому +8

    Trump 2020!

    • @EllyB1104
      @EllyB1104 3 роки тому +2

      Ah, bad luck 😊

  • @34Packardphaeton
    @34Packardphaeton 4 роки тому

    .. Maybe.. maybe Ted wasn't driving it....... but rather, a semi-drunk MaryJo.

    • @TexMex421
      @TexMex421 4 роки тому +2

      Or Aliens were driving, and Santa Claus pushed them off the bridge.

    • @lesleymaner2851
      @lesleymaner2851 2 роки тому

      Many people believe she was

    • @34Packardphaeton
      @34Packardphaeton 2 роки тому

      @@lesleymaner2851 .. Yes, though I doubt it.