CHAPPAQUIDDICK: DID SENATOR TED KENNEDY COMMIT MURDER? CONSPIRACY AND COVERUP ON MARTHA’S VINEYARD
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The story of Senator Edward Kennedy’s infamous 1969 car crash after a party, that resulted in the death of one of Kennedy's young assistants, Mary Jo Kopechne.
The film includes unique interviews with the prosecutor, key detectives and the police involved in investigating Kennedy. Plus an exclusive interview with one of "the boiler room girls" who was at the party. SIR IAN HOLM narrates this investigative documentary, made for the BBC.
WATCH A 2-PART EXTENDED DIRECTOR'S CUT WHICH INCLUDES ADDITIONAL WITNESSES AND FORENSICS - NOT SHOWN IN THIS BBC VERSION OF THE DOCUMENTARY .
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CHAPPAQUIDDICK: THE AUTOPSY EXTRA examines in more detail than our 1994 documentary "CHAPPAQUIDDICK" why no autopsy was ever performed on Mary Jo Kopechne's body - even though it was standard practice in such accidents and could have answered crucial questions.
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CHAPPAQUIDDICK:EXTRA2.THE AIR BUBBLE CONTROVERSY.
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Judge Steel “I’m not going to participate in any unjust assault on Kennedy cause I’m a Democrat”. This is enough for me. Even though Ted Kennedy is dead, there needs to be a new trial. Mary Jo deserves justice.
Absolutely. And really - unjust?? What’s unjust about it? Ted was complicit in a woman’s death! Now that Ted is gone, a new trial absolutely needs to happen…for Mary Jo and her parents’ sake. For the sake of justice.
The democrats had to save to democrat party in this Democratic Party crisis.
Stinking corrupt rats Democrats
The sad part, is , they feel justified in their horrible bias. The oath they take means NOTHING to them. Their hatred of YOU is their all consuming justification for lies and their criminality .
@@jamestcallahanphotographer in the world over, justice is those of very high standing cannot get a fair trial, not until they face our creator.
"2 months suspended sentence and a year probation" for wreckless drunk driving, killing a young woman; just leaving her to die in the car and not even reporting it till 10 hours later. So corrupt and evil..
Well that’s because that’s not what truly took place which was less of a crime but if the truth was told it would have really ruined him completely politically speaking. What was spun was the lesser of two evils and could be contained and controlled moving forward .
not to mention the estimated "air pocket" in the submerged vehicle. She needed someone brave and not concerned of own wellbeing in order to have that "chance" to live, that savior never came, simple a coward left.
Yupppp! Camelot?? My Asss!
Well stated. Feel for her parents and family
@@cannibal4363 ditto
Mary Jo never received true justice.
So, this Democrat didn't want to get his hands dirty!! Mary Jo lost her life, while Kennedy went back to his hotel to rest. There still needs to be an attempt to get to the truth, RIP Mary Jo
He didn’t know she was in there. Someone put her in there to set him up. He was with a different woman.
All I know is this... I grew up on Cape Cod near the Kennedy Compound, Hyannisport. My father a lifelong staunch Democrat who always voted for any Democrat on the Massachusetts voting ballot told me this... Had this been anyone else but a Kennedy, they would have been convicted and imprisoned for murdering that person and thrown away the key. As I grew up into adulthood I saw the extreme corruption from that Party in this and many things and decided to become an Independent voter.
Good for you - great move!
Wow he got away with something
@@janerohr8055 every Kennedy got away with something.. starting with Joe Sr and as you can see when it comes to the Kennedy's what comes around goes around.. it's called Karma
As Republicans are lying fake scoundrels and democrats are lost people it's way better to give your vote to an independant anyway.
And yet Teddy was reelected for decades after. Despite Mary Jo. Despite his socialist progressive policies that would make JFK shudder.
Kennedy was only genuinely concerned about one person...guess who!
The woman he got pregnant?
@@michaeldavis4746 somebody didn't read the pinned comment 🥴
Like most powerful men......... Umm correction, men in general.
@@naomijones845
You are absolutely correct Naomi.
All men, I look back at my life and I wonder why people put up with my bs
@@mikeoveli1028 you simp.
He could not report to the police within 10 hours as he would have been charged with drunk driving - thereby making himself guilty of of manslaughter through reckless behavior.
He should have gone to jail for manslaughter- at the very least.
Ted was a bad person, regardless of whether he intentionally killed anyone or not.
I totally agree. We met him a few times when I was growing up because my dad worked for RFK in Washington DC when he was Attorney General up until the JFK assassination and my dad always mentioned what a lowlife Ted was. He was guilty of manslaughter and lied to cover up hIs lies to cover up more lies. He never even apologized to Mary Jo’s family. I’ll never forget standing next to him at Fenway Park and he was drunk. Someone threw a beer at him and was arrested.
@@pjuggle Thanks for sharing that.
Uncle Ted was In Florida WITH his nephew (William Kennedy Smith) when the alleged incident occurred, for fu$#’s sake.
@Wasn't Me - You bring up a good point, William Kennedy Smith raped Patricia Bowman in 1991, and Teddy pulled strings for him, he was acquitted. They destroyed the victim on the stand. Teddy helped him get away with it. Horrible family. They were never held accountable for anything.
Even JFK junior, I liked him, good looking kid, but his arrogance killed himself and his wife and sister-in-law. He couldn’t be told anything, he was used to getting his way. He shouldn’t have flown that plane. They were (are) a family who abused their wealth, power, influence, often to the detriment of others.
All the marxists who covered for him at the time and kept him in office for 47 years.
Not only did she lose her life and possibly a child's life but they're trying to blame her? Ubelievable!
She knew that he was drinking but still got into the car so yeah it's her fault she died that day
Teddy’s wife Joan, miscarried soon after. Another death.
@@ericparish1530 MJ is responsible for HALF of the blame for her death!
Why in hell would a supposedly sensible young women get in any car with a drunk driver?!
A bunch of married men partying with a bunch of young single girls…sounds innocent to me !
Sure they were just chatting ,singing ,dancing ,eating , ; )
Those women (not girls) were not so innocent. They knew the ropes.
Totally inappropriate. Why weren’t the wives invited along?
The system is two tiered, one for the rich and one for the rest.
ALL I can say is... IF you or I drove off a bridge (drunk) and left the vehicle, with my passenger inside, at the bottom of the pond, WE WOULD STILL BE IN PRISON!! RIP Ms. Kopechne 💗 #moneyTALKS
Eric excellent response.
20 years ago, my adult daughter was shopping with her 1 year old daughter, who was in a car seat in the rear seat. She was backing out of parking space, didn’t cut the wheel enough, and clipped the rear right fender of the car next to her. Unbeknownst to her there was a man in the car waiting for his wife.
When the police arrived for the accident report, they arrested my daughter! They charged her with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (the car) and endangering the safety of a minor (the baby). One was a 2nd degree felony. Serious stuff. They called me to pick up the baby. Her bond was $5000 and it cost another $5000 for an attorney. Within a month all charges were dropped…..an inexperienced, over zealous cop…
The point is my daughter was put in jail, cost her lots of money, she had done nothing wrong except being a less than great driver, and Teddy walks always unscathed for murder. Money talks.
@@mchapman132 I'm so sorry you and your family had to go through that! There's a Justice system for the wealthy and another one for the rest of us, sadly!!
@@ericcoverdale9523 - I’m a retired judge. What you said is very true. It doesn’t work 100% of the time, but it does in most cases. I could bore you for hours with court events that most would not believe. Glad I’m retired.
@@mchapman132 I think people either missed that day of Driver's Ed or maybe it's not even taught anymore?! But when I'm driving behind someone and there's 30 other cars behind US, I have an out-of-body experience... 😉
It's also a major cause of accidents, as people can't pass, due to traffic on the right most of the time.
Unbelievable that not only was there no autopsy but they tried to avoid an inquest.
The rumors that she was pregnant was enough to prevent an autopsy. The good democrats where already running interference for Teddy, their heads would have exploded trying to cover up a pregnancy. Good Catholics and all.
It's amazing (or should I say sad) that he never pulled her out with him !
Even the seat belts were different then and they just went over your waist and easier to unbuckle...if they were even wearing them ??
It makes you really wonder "why" he didn't pull her out ? Then wait for freaking "Ten Days" not to call the police ? What ?
What is more unbelievable is that her parents never questioned Ted Kennedy’s actions nor did they want an autopsy. This was their only child and their slavish loyalty to the Democrat Party and to the Kennedy “legacy” was more important than how and why their daughter was left to die in a submerged car. Also, there was some public scrutiny about how long the affair had been going on and the possibility of a pregnancy, all of which may have contributed to their lack of curiosity.
Sounds like Pelosi. A coverup. I think he was set up. Just to keep him quiet.
Just about everyone in Massachucetts is a Democrat. I went to school there in Hyannis. There I was TAUGHT in school that Democrats believe in Democracy and it is the "party of the People." What a bald-face lie that was but when you are young and stupid you end up believing all of it.
Yes. He left her to drown in the water while he went home without telling the authorities. He wanted to sober up first. She died waiting to be rescued.
Yep, being found drunk at the scene and causing a death would have sent him to prison
He obviously didn't know she had crashed into the water, hence the relaxed mood before he got the message then panic!
The fake neck brace was a nice touch
I thought so myself.
Remember her body was never autopsied, despite that being required by Massachusetts state law
Teddy had her body flown out of state and quickly buried and played legal games to get off the hook.
Anyone else see this in their suggested videos for no reason today??????
I remember this so well. If his last name wasn't Kennedy, he would have been been charged with involuntary manslaughter at the least.
Anyone else, in any other place, would have been charged with Second-Degree Murder. It’s disgusting. IF he wasn’t in that car, then he was a negligent coward, at the very least.
A little retribution was done by National Lampoon in 1972 when their center fold reminded everyone about Chappaquiddick. Teddy then withdrew from the Presidential Nomination so that the incident wouldn't be examined by non purchased eyes.
He was lying
I grew up in Massachusetts and my father, who was a Washingtonian worked as a special assistant to the US Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy. When JFK was assassinated, my father told me he was at a supermarket a week later and two CIA spooks caught up to him, gave him an envelope full of cash and told him his services were no longer needed, he didn’t need to clean out his desk and that his property would be returned to him. When I got into middle school, I remember Ted Kennedy being in the news about murdering Mary Joe K, and asked my dad if Ted was related to the guy he worked for in D.C. He shut off the tv and told me that when I was older, I would understand, but that Ted Kennedy was guilty , but would likely never be prosecuted. If the average person were to have been involved with the same situation, they would have been convicted of manslaughter and other charges.
Who do you think killed the Kennedys, the spooks (CIA), and your dad told you, you'd understand and what is it that we should understand about why they got murdered maybe because they wanted to get rid of the evil elements high in our Govt.!
My big brother was always getting in trouble growing up. My dad's money got him out of a serious crime when he was in Marines in 1950's. He grew up a real bully and horrible man!
At a minimum, he should have been charged with vehicular homicide. But he’s Kennedy
10hrs gives alcohol time to leave too. Horrid man
Another entitled democrat getting away with murder
“ I’m a democrat “ I won’t do the right thing , I won’t do the just thing , I won’t do the Godly thing, “ I’m a democrat “ . That really says it all , nothing has changed, nothing !
Exactly….and there are some Republicans like Mitch McConnell and a few others who are just as corrupt.
Someone hasn’t been paying attention to the clown show that is the Republican Party nowadays.
@@jennifer60515 if it keeps up, they could get as bad as the demons in the Democratic Party!
@@jennifer60515 Well, I watch several channels on UTube every day. Like CSPSN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX NEWS SKY Australia, and EPOCH TIMES (Taiwan) News, and UTube coverage of the Congress. I will tell you honestly that I get better, more accurate information from foreign news, Fox News, and watching the Congress. I do not rely on opinions. Just the real facts.
His speech, cowardice and total lack of empathy is disgusting....and his speechwriters are no better....politics is a dirty business and shame on you voters of Massachusetts for keeping this creep in office....50 years later all that matters is Mary Jo! Thank you Liz Trotta for staying on it.
Why do they all refer to a 28-year old as a girl? No one refers to a 28 year old guy as a boy. UGH
I always wondered what my father meant, when confronted by my mother about something he didn't want to do, would say " I'd rather go on a midnight drive with Ted Kennedy" .
Awesome mom you had.
When JFK patted my head, at a political event, I was 12 yoa, my father made me scrub my scalp and hair 3x to wash off the Kennedy curse. He couldn’t stand them.
I can’t stop laughing at your comment Cardinal701👍👍👍👍👍👍
I am 85 and I remember every detail . He was drunk,he missed the edge of the bridge, the car an Olds 88 slipped into the water , he managed to get out and staggered home. End of Story ? Not on your life. The following chatter made lots of people rich.
same thing i think - he was wasted
Are you saying many others were paid off in hush money in the millions? Come on man as Sleepy Joe would say today.
@@michaeldavis4746 Wow ! You have a great imagination ! No, the money was made by the Media, the Books written, the Lawyers fees and so on. It was a very simple accident that was blown up into a World-Wide drama that was exploited for millions in profit.
The Kennedys were a sketchy, nefarious family with a lot of skeletons in their closet. Despite all the allegations against the Kennedy brothers for decades, there has never been an indictment/arrest. Not sure of murder, but something bad happened and Ted took his time walking away from that accident.
I’ll never believe that this incident was what Kennedy described. When Liz Trotter asked him when he’d have a statement and his reply was “At the appropriate time”, I really wish she’d taken it a step further and said, “Senator, the appropriate time has long passed”
the fact that Kennedy's team wanted her fired for asking a question shows how much power the Kennedys had at one time.
@@kerprice,
And chutzpah!
And, guilt!
The average man would have been charged with vehicular manslaughter, DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.
It was the Kennedy name and the wealth of the family that helped Senator Kennedy weasel out of being held 100% accountable for his crime.
It was a pathetic sight to see the Senator walking around with a phony neck brace after his crime was committed.
Again, the average man would have dealt with the charges and convictions of his multiple crimes.
The law doesn't always apply to the privileged and this case is a perfect example of my case in point.
You are sure right about that however that being said it is my belief that Ted Kennedy got out of the car after being caught in the sea act with her. The story about him driving was just that a story. The Kennedy family has always been connected it was were they made there money. I think Ted was the worst of the bunch and I am sure that the girls family was taken care of for the rest of there lives.
Not because of the Kennedy wealth but the corruption of bribes paid in millions to keep their mouths shut. Ponder this, she was pregnant by Teddy Kennedy and she has to go, likely murder of the woman.
Wait a minute Frank... Have you considered that it may have NOT been manslaughter the lowest possible charge.... but murder? That is what most of us in Hyannis, MA believed back then.
@@michaeldavis4746 A murder charge would have been better, but manslaughter is murder..
Thank you for your thoughts.
@@michaeldavis4746 No doubt Teddy was trying to get some.
Ted being a married man had no business with her in the beginning.
Wealth, corruption and the Kennedy name is what assisted Ted in getting away with such a crime.
You bring out good points or should I say observations.
If it wasn't murder, it was a TOTAL disregard for life!
Its unbelievable how after 55 YEARS since this accident, the simple truth was never revealed. One after another, the people who were there and were directly involved, now die off of old age - never speaking a word about it. That's a heavy burden to take to your grave.
You must have just watched a different video.
I’m a retired pharmacist. Back in the 1980s a National pharmacy journal published a letter to the editor. The person who wrote the letter was the head of the investigation of the Chappaquiddick incident. He was a local in the area. He was a pharmacist. A couple of decades had gone by and he wanted to tell what they found. They found out everything…but the political pressures forced him to bury what happened. So sad what has happened to our country.
@ babyboomer Thanks for your recollection. I believe the pharmacist was almost certainly Leslie Leland who was the foreman of the Grand Jury. He was ‘discouraged” from investigating the tragedy. He gave an interview in 1989 to Current Affair. Worth a look ua-cam.com/video/dSn5vw-SS1o/v-deo.html
I read that Mary Jo Copechne survived in an air pocket in that car for approximately 2 hours.
@@carolebadge8203 Hi Carole. You might be interested in this video I put together about that air pocket issue
ua-cam.com/video/bQsbtkgPqik/v-deo.html
@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES
Maury would have gotten to the bottom of these baseless pregnancy assertions - Teddy, you are not the father!
@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES - The Kennedys we’re good at “discouraging” people from revealing unfavorable things about them.
If an average citizen did this they would have been Arrested and tried in a court of law. . Most Likely jailed especially for leaving the scene and Mary Jo in the car.
I grew up in Hyannis and went to the same Catholic Church as the Kennedy family but never saw Bobby or Teddy go there. I remember driving by the Kennedy Family Compound in Hyannisport where there were dozens of guards armed with submachine guns similar to the Godfather movie. Most folks we knew believed she was murdered because she was pregnant and he was a married man. It would have devastated his goal to become US President. Thus, we felt she had to go. the scandal would be too much.
I kind of believe that Mary Jo may have gotten pregnant. Or had proof of Ted's cheating with her so he killed her.
Only because he was a Kennedy Danusha Forknneer
@@joemartin9904 Who knows ?
@@michaeldavis4746 Who really knows ?
I was only in high school but in my family we never revered the Kennedys. The father made his money bootlegging liquor, and I just remember scandal after scandal and a lot of womanizing.
It was way more than womanizing John and Bobby Kennedy were doing Marilyn Monroe. She ended up (they say) committing suicide.
@@michaeldavis4746 - She was murdered. Nobody commits suicide with an enema of barbiturates up their butt……and no enema found near the body or in the room. She was murdered. She was dumped by both JFK and RFK and felt used and abused. Friday she threatened to go spill it all to the press on Monday…….by Sunday she was dead.
And what did the Democrats do? Treated him as a hero for decades. Make it make sense.
Conveniently forgot to report the accident until 10 hours later. Wow. Scoundrel
Yes, he did. His name, his money, and his party affiliation allowed him to walk free.
Points to consider regardless of the actual events.
By his own admission here, the prosecutor was conflicted about being a democrat and doing his job - should have passed the case on. He didn't. I guess he decided he was more of a democrat.
Kennedy was allowed to hide out at his father's house until he was ready and legally prepared to concoct a story to put him in the best light.
The reporter was allegedly thrown off the story for asking questions - at the insistence of the Kennedys.
The plea deal, outcome, and circumstances of the hearing where prearranged by the Kennedy lawyers - on their schedule. He was allowed to go first, tell his tale, and go home. The result was a suspended sentence, probation, case closed.
There was no autopsy of Mary Jo. The doctor in this documentary clearly didn't make that decision. His interview in the hallway was painful to watch as he was coached on what to say.
Yes, it was clearly a cover up, and almost everything Kennedy said was a lie. The local authorities cooperated with the to sweep this under the rug as much as possible.
The story about Ted jumping out of the car and having her drive off alone to avoid an embarrassing DUI anc scandal makes the most sense. His reaction upon hearing his friends say they discovered the car went off the bridge makes sense. All of the subsequent behavior seems to be to save face in the eyes of the press. I find it harder to believe Mary Jo Kepekne was murdered for some reason, but there definitely was a cover up after the fact. Rest in peace, Mary Jo.
And let's not forget the wonderful Roman Catholic Church for giving him an annulment after being married for over 20 years.
Mary Jo Kopechne was an only child. Her parents lost their only child. How horrifying and sad! God bless her soul. I hope the real truth comes out some day.
I don't think it will ever come out on Earth. There is just too much money and power in the Kennedy family. And also think about this... What Democrat would want the real truth to come out? It would be the political undoing of the Democratic Party forever.
He left her to drown in that car. He didn't report the accident for 10 hours. He was completely responsible for her death.
actually she suffocated. There was an air pocket she was breathing through. If he went to get help, she probably would have been alive
He wanted to keep his sweet life untainted
Years ago, my MIL allowed a man she had met in a bar to drive her New Yorker, the same evening she met him. He ran a stop sign and T-Boned a 50’s pick-up, throwing the driver out his own passenger window. He lived. My MIL was found crammed up under the glove compartment, deceased and bozo somehow managed to bail and leave the scene. He was caught two days later while seeking medical attention. He was given seven years for involuntary manslaughter. How is this any different other than WHO it happened to???
Had he been a private citizen, he would have been behind bars.
She was in 5 feet of water. The first thing he did was call his lawyer not emergency personnel.
Oh, he called the Kennedy mafia to work out a legacy excuse…they all should be jailed for obstruction of Justice!
Investigating official “I’m a Democrat.”
Enough said.
I think he tried to make himself out to be a hero instead of a senator trying to get laid, which I believe to be the truth. So, he ended up not having to give a shred of evidence in a court setting, getting a year’s probation, and a two month suspended sentence, and not having to admit to anything, or answer any questions. While a woman lay dead in the water for 10 hours, he got a warm meal, and a good night’s sleep. And why not? He called his fixers and said, fix this, and went on to become the lion of the Senate, “and” a cold, callous, selfish, power driven politician, and unpunished murderer!
He should have gone to prison and not the Senate'
He took that young lady's life
I'm Australian and even I know the truth
He was drunk and didn't give a shit about any one else, but him self!
Be more specific, your statement is true for most of the Kennedys.
Called lawyer friends before calling for help. Politicians are untouchable
Kennedy had been drinking all day since the morning, he had at least 10 rum & cokes, supplimented by multiple beers-he was drunk. At the party he flirted with all the women present until he got a bite from Mary Jo. At around 12:30am they decided to have sex at the beach, left the party got in the car and started on to their fate. Ted, being almost blackout drunk, went the wrong way and stopped to get his bearings. That is when a police officer spotted Ted & started to go over to see if he could be of assistance, Ted saw the officer & as he was drunk, driving with a suspended licence & was with a woman not his wife he peeled out to get out of dodge. In his drunkin recklessness he went off the bridge. Ted saved himself and his only concern was of himself, Mary Jo was just an object, just as she was when he wanted sex with her. He was an immoral criminal who did much damage to this country.
Mary Jo wasn't that kind of girl, from all accounts, and she was certainly intelligent enough not to get into a car with someone who was extremely drunk.
Massive cover up. Sickening how protected these parasites are.
The real parasites are
the central Bankers of
the City of London
But most people fear them too much
to ever breathe a word of complaint
That is true for the elite people in general, whatever political party they are. When push comes to shove, elites from different political parties still have more in common than with the "non-elite" of their own party. That's the way it goes....
It is still going on today! Look at the Biden Crime Family and see for yourself!
@@Retroscoop - Political bias has always been a filthy game. The Bushes were made fun of, the Clinton’s are immoral, liars, Trump is a billionaire, crook and womanizer, etc. If you take the time to go back and look at all of our Presidents, there aren’t many who were squeaky clean. Many were womanizers, JFK was probably the worst, sex was in the WH, just not under the desk in the Oval Office like Clinton.
JFK’s wealth was much more than Trumps, and the Kennedy wealth stemmed from corrupt business dealings in the whisky import business.
Nobody demanded to see JFK’s tax returns. LBJ was another dirty, lying crook and womanizer. FDR was a womanizer too and Nixon was just plain weird. Carter, a religious man, “lusted in his heart”. That must have made his wife feel good.
We had just came out of the stable ‘50’s after WWII. Eisenhower was a good, president. He and Mamie were not flamboyant, they were plain. Then the larger than life Kennedys show up, big teeth, lots of hair, and a publicity machine like never before. Camelot was born.
America went blind to all the bullsxxt, and bought into the young, attractive couple, America’s royalty. They played us for fools…and we were. They were laughing at us behind those protective walls at Hyannis Port.
Yeah, and if it were me or you, we'd still be in prison.
9:42...Let me translate Senator Kennedy's statement.
I was drunk and drove off a bridge. Being drunk, I couldn't swim very well and made a half ass attempt to save Mary Jo. Scared and drunk, I swam to shore. I then went to my hotel room to sober up, but passed out. The next morning, realizing I was in a jam and not even thinking about Mary Jo or her family, I called my buddies to strategize how I could minimize the damage. We talked for a little while and I asked them who they thought could take the fall for me. They convinced me to call the police and said I would have to say that I was the driver because too many eyewitnesses at the party saw me drive away. I wrote out a statement for the police saying I was in shock after the accident (but I was really just drunk out of my mind) and don't remember anything except for my heroic, life saving efforts to save Mary Jo. Long story short, I knew I had the police and DA in my back pocket so nothing was going to happen to me. I even contacted my Washington DC friends (and my Dad) to help me just in case. In the end, I got away scot-free on a aggravated vehicular homicide charge and the stupid voters of Massachusetts kept re-electing me to Senate for the next 40 years.
If you grew up on Cape Cod you would know his dad was dead . Silly boy !
Well stated!
@rudy... This happened in July of '69, Joseph P. Kennedy didn't pass away until November 18, 1969.
Few people consider TK a "heroic victim." He' was a selfish coward.
Kennedy didn't have a valid driver's license at the time of the accident. Some speculate that Ms Kopechne was the driver. This is absurd. She had never been to the island, while Kennedy had been there many times.No autopsy was performed, so the exact cause of death was never known, but she likely suffocated. Kennedy, or any of the other married men, should have been a party with single women. Joan Kennedy was pregnant, and on bed rest. But, her husband had better things to do.
The older I get the more preposterous the concept of “politician” being considered a legitimate profession becomes.
Kennedy went back and sobered up. Normal people don't wait 10 hours to report an accident when they know a woman is in the vehicle.
44:36, Kennedy's account of what occurred is untrue.
How this guy kept his Senate seat for 40 years after the accident is criminal.
No it's politics. When you lay down. with dogs you get fleas.
The democrats of Massachusetts believe the Kennedys were and are gods and willl vote for them regardless. Mindless zombies
Its not criminal. Its America.
It truly is criminal!
Voters are sometimes very frivolous. Sometimes clowns and crooks get elected as president. The flip side of democracy...
It was claimed that he was drunk (probably was, he was always drunk), but that should not have kept him from being tried and convicted of negligent homicide, like anyone else would have been!
Kennedy privilege….they still abuse the system…they always will. Spoiled lot!
A drunk person would have drowned. He wasn't in the car. She drove herself over.
@@sophiar6493 - I don’t think so. I don’t think she was conscious when the car went in. If she was conscious, during the event, when he got out, she probably would have done the same. She would just walk back to the house. She was a strong, young woman, her parents said a good swimmer. If there was any way for her to get, she would have. He was never in the vehicle. All windows were up according to the divers. Ted, a big man, didn’t have a mark on him, and was bone dry. I’m a petite woman, I had to climb out of a car, years ago, when the doors jammed. I had marks all over my arms and thighs.
IMHO, she was either pregnant or thought she was pregnant or was just making it up to pressure Ted into divorcing Joan and marry her. She gave him an ultimatum. He panicked, saw his career….and marriage go down the toilet and subdued her. He then got out and pushed the car into the water. He stayed there long enough to make sure she wasn’t getting out.
He passed a few places where he could have gotten aid for her, but no….he walked back to the house. He and his flunkies spent hours to concocted his alibi and were confident he was in the clear. If he feared she was really with child, he made sure there was no inquest, and no autopsy.
He awoke the next day as if nothing had happened. That takes a real cold hearted, callous , self-centered SOB. He went to church that Sunday. Repulsive.
"I was not going to go after Kennedy because I am a Democrat..."
That man should have been in prison, right next to Teddy.
I completely agree and I’m a Democrat. This “party first” business (from both sides) is really tired
6:17 As a wise old grandma, I do not believe that lady. Six young single women and six older men don't go to an island party in a rented cottage to talk politics. It may not have been overt, but of course there was shenanigans going on, perhaps just not with her.
And Ted, the sot, getting a break from Joan and in the company of other young women. What could possibly go wrong?
After seeing this and hearing the evidence, I lost all respect for T.Kennedy. He's nothing but a liar, who just wanted to save his own behind!
But it alleges he wasn't even in the car.
@@jpkmcg He admitted he was in the car and he also was seen driving the car by a police officer.
@@michaeldavis4746 You need to watch the documentary to understand the high probability that Mary Jo was in the car by herself when it dove off the bridge. After being seen by the police, Ted stopped the car, got out, and asked Mary Jo to drive by herself in one direction while he walked in the opposite direction just because he was worried about being seen with her. Jump to 36:23 and listen to 'reconstruction' based on Detective Bernie Flynn's hypothesis. If that is what happened, he waited too long to check up on her whereabouts and safety.
He should have been charged with manslaughter.
As Mad Magazine said at the time: "Chap Acquitted".
I like how the police chief said he didn’t want to push too hard, because he was a democrat!
@10:30-11:04, the prosecutor said he did not press charges because he is a Democrat. Why was not this man prosecuted? Unbelievable.
Great question
My daddy was a Democrat my grandaddy was a Democrat my great grandaddy was a Democrat....get the picture?
Where is the victims responsibility in all of this? She knew he had drank way too much and still got in the car with him behind the wheel.
@@ericparish1530 you're not serious
@@ericparish1530 really? She was alive in that car for quite a bit and had enough sense about her to find the air pocket in the back of the car and cling for life.....and he left her.
There was a book put out called Teddy Bare....that's a great read to show you what happened and IMHO a better investigation.
This was back when journalists still practiced journalism.
There was a t shirt "Teddy for Life Guard" that was sold within weeks of Chppaquiddick. Yes, he was guilty. The Kennedys were very powerful and very wealthy and always above the law.
My uncle had a bumper sticker on his 1968 Ford pickup that said: "More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than in nuclear power plants."
Of course that was before Chernobyl happened.
“Were” above the law? They still are - they have just been quietly put out of politics. But they still have money they still
Have influence -
@@trevorn9381A popular bumper sticker at the time read, "Ted's car has killed more ppl than my gun."
Never underestimate what those in power are capable of doing!
yes, power and money seems to make everything evil always. the kennedys were half demon and half not give'n a dam about many things
@@bettypergerson1070 And they have no SHAME! That’s pure evil👺
Never underestimate what these people can get away with
@@loulou7963 sooo true
Look at the Clintons. Scary.
Gee! Do you think. Ted Kennedy made a call-not to authorities, but to his attorney. He then sobered up and was fitted with a visible neck support 😢
He probably called his dad
@@sriddle3569 an even bigger scumbag
@@sriddle3569 Joe Sr. suffered a stroke years earlier, was incapacitated, and died 4 months later, to my recollection.
In the movie, they show that the neck brace was just a propt! Intended to garner public sympathy! Look how Kennedy tried to have that reporter that asked to many questions fired! Sickening!
@@sriddle3569 I’m not positive, but in the movie, he did call his dad…because of his stroke, he couldn’t talk, but you could see how furious he was. I think he hung up on his spoiled, idiot son for screwing up his chances to be president. It was crooked Joes last chance to own the presidency.
They didn’t fall far from the tree, that’s for sure.
I was 18 at the time and I can remember my father saying "BS" out loud as he read the story in the paper. How he maintained his place in politics is a mystery to me. Wealth and privilege.
Yes, wealth and privilege. But also a legal system, and a mainstream media, and a political-corporate-industrial conglomerate in America that is entirely beholden to the corrupt Democrat party. That was true in 1969 and it is true today. If only people (especially young people) would WAKE UP to this reality.
Not just wealth... EXTREME WEALTH AND POWER!!!
He was never in the car. Then lied to minimise the damage to his career.
Kennedy was the biggest liar of all! He left Mary Jo to die so he could save his own miserable neck! He knew that nothing was going to happen to him criminally and he would skate. I would love to know how much old Joe Kennedy paid the Kopechne's off to remain silent. Thankfully, Kennedy's presidential career died in the water that fateful night. Poor Mary Jo Kopechne - she died for her country.
We simply do not know that is the way it all happened
Teddy was a jerk, without a doubt
But not all jerks
are natural killers
He could have been a patsy
@ Mary Brown
Then why was he a SENATOR all those years? 🤔
@@gigiw.7650 because people are stupid
For those not as old as the rest of us, this event happened simultaneously as Apollo 11 was landing on the moon. The Apollo Moon landing mission had the media really trying very hard to knock this Chappaquiddick story OFF of the front pages. To be honest, that whole summer of 1969 was a crazy time for news reporters from Manson members to Woodstock. I remember it all, very clearly.
I agree with your insights. I was 18 at the time.
'68 was horrific....
I was 14 in '69, so I remember it all very well too. Between all of that and reports on the Vietnam war, there was something horrible happening that entire summer
Me too.
The sixties were very violent. I was married in the ‘60’s. There was JFK, RFK, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinations, the Boston Strangler, Richard Speck murdering 8 nurses, Charles Manson, and this debacle in Chappaquiddick. All the killers were punished for their crimes…….except Teddy boy. Money buys freedom and “respectability”.
Brain cancer at 77 was too little too late in my opinion. He went to the Pope seeking reconciliation….forgiveness. I thought he claimed to be innocent? Pathetic.
If it was someone else they would be in prison
He should have been prosecuted. He abandoned that girl to die an awful death. Especially as experts contended that she was alive in an air bubble for a time. I cannot imagine how terrifying that must have been. Given the speed in which divers were able to reach the car many hours later- one could argue that there was a.chance she might have survived if help had gotten to her quickly. Kennedy’s only concern was himself!
The air bubble theory expounded by John Farrar was firmly disputed by expert crash investigators who examined the car . See this extra video where this evidence is clearly explained ua-cam.com/video/bQsbtkgPqik/v-deo.html
if i do this i spend years in prison and am disgraced forever
he gets no punishments, and his naive constituents keep voting him in for many decades
great country, ours
an accursed family
'the sins of the fathers are......'
Oh right, MK went racing down an unfamiliar dark road, and went off road into the water. While Kennedy told a different story. Ridiculous story to protect a Kennedy. Fast forward to Martha Moxley , Marilyn Monroe.
I don't care if it was intentional or not- a young woman died because not only did he drive off a bridge, but left her to die without telling anyone. Classic spoiled rich kid who knew he'd never have to answer for this actions. RIP Mary Jo
It didn’t end with Teddy either. Michael Skakel killed Martha Moxley with a golf club, and William Kennedy Smith raped Patricia Bowman.
Skakel only spent 11 years in prison and Smith was acquitted thanks to Uncle Teddy. Moral of story: Don’t get involved with anyone in the Kennedy clan.
And don’t forget , she was pregnant also , every kennedy , was not very bright , as his story didn’t hold water !
My mother worked at Sylvania Raytheon and ‘Ted’ Kennedy, accompanied by his wife Joan, came stumping for the Presidency. The workers were in the cafeteria and before ‘Ted’ could speak, my mother started chanting: Hell no Mary Jo! The chant was picked up by others and‘Ted’ had to leave before he even spoke!
Nobody knows ur mom. Ted buried a HERO
Good for your mother what an amazing woman
wonder why? your mother and other's felt that way as to say no ted and Joan Kennedy for democrats nomination for president? and or wining the winning the presidency
What kept in him office via MA voters after MJKs death? Scratches my head.
@@coreyadkins8775 why is that? im to young to remember anything before 1985 1st hand
Ted screwed up. He SHOULD never have LEFT the scene, PERIOD!!!
He was drunk, panicked, took the coward and liars route, and still managed to get elected, re elected, but never for president. The second tragedy is we lost a potentially great president, I know I am crazy to say that.
Well if he had left to get help that would have been the right thing to do!
He wasn't AT the scene.
@@bobk2966 A leftist sod for President? No thanks!!!
@@bobk2966 You must be as demented as Biden!
They can say all they want about how they were honoring RFK, etc... its still very suspicious that a bunch of married dudes are on a vacation island with a bunch of single young women
Morals are low with the Democratic elite class.
@@bedlambikes An obvious point for over 60 years and counting.
I know the last time I committed manslaughter (if not outright murder), the police let me confess completely, then stroll on out the door to go hide in my dad’s house for a week.
Stupid victim cost me my career!!
True Michael, the whole thing is unbelievable!! To answer the thumbnail question ... YES!
I genuinely did commit manslaughter in 2010 and I'm Scott free!
interesting take@Craig Ross
@@trentcruise3084 another Rogan fan I see
@@jedwardoffenbach2445 And Andrew Tate.
I grew up in Hyannis.
This was a dark time…… and although I was quite young, this didn’t pass the smell test.
The Kennedy Family was 80% of my reality during my whole childhood, so these stories really stood out.
I was asked by L.A.Times reporter, when they came into town when Ted Kennedy died. I was on my race bike, helmet and sweaty….asked me my thoughts. I strained my brain to speak nicely.
I made it in to the Paper….and my thoughts were, in reflection, vague. I had to make a choice when the reporter approached.
Had this happened today…they would get a completely different and brutally honest response.
These politicians have really inspired anger amongst we the people….and I find it difficult to hide it lately.
I am going to stop watching this…because whatever is said here, there is a 98% chance the TRUTH has been all cleaned up.
Hard to trust documentaries these days too.
I may just have TRUST ISSUES eh?
You should have kept watching. This doc in no way sugarcoats Kennedy and his story. He was obviously guilty as were his lying friends.
Your trust issues are no different than 80% of thinking America. I watched it. It was well done. Perhaps you should finish it.
It still makes me angry. I remember very well when it happened and I believe I understood even at age 11 what was happening. It was hard to swallow even at that age, it was confusing how my dad could be serving our nation, yet a nation which would allow a thing like this. Angry, distrustful and very sad. I periodically still think about Mary Jo and what it must have been like for her.
Yesterday, I read the farce about taking away our gas ovens and stoves. I want to find a hole somewhere and scream leave me alone. It is hard to believe they could purposely destroy what really has been for millions a shining city on a hill. Good luck fellow American. Go watch it, he did a fine job.
I watched the speech with my parents, they were disgusted by it. They had met JFK and Ted and knew Bobby,Dad said Ted never grew up everything was done for him and he was surrounded by pycophants, who did his bidding. His poor wife lost their baby right afterwards and started drinking. The speech shows what he really thought of the people who voted for him,.
Well shared @japanjack62. Thank you.
Mary Jo, rest in peace 🕊🙏
The senator was a married man, getting some side action.
That's pretty common.
The current was too strong for him to save her.
Understandable.
He tried to weasel his way out of it.
Unforgivable.
Exactly
They didn't need to impeach Nixon. All they needed was to get Teddy Kennedy to drive him home...
A ridiculous family of ridiculous people, protected by a fortune created through crime. A lot of people should be deeply, profoundly ashamed of themselves.
All's fair in love. War and Kennedy and Trump!
I'll put it this way, if I'm riding in a car, a ship, a boat, a canoe, a kayak, a hot air balloon,an airplane, a dirigible, or in a spacecraft, with a Kennedy, I'm wearing a lifejacket, period.
I would NEVER enter one of those items.
1 0 0 %
If it was you or me, we would never see the outside of the jail.
The photo at 31:27 shows the drivers side window open. That’s likely how Kennedy escaped. Not that Kennedy opened the window underwater. That window had been open long before because it was a hot summer night.
The basic scenario is not all that complicated. Kennedy and Mary Jo were in the back seat making out ( to put it gently), when they were seen by the policeman. Kennedy knew he was in trouble - (no license, drunk, and with a woman not his wife). In a panic he jumped into the drivers seat and took off at high speed to avoid further police scrutiny, with Mary Jo still in the back seat ( where she was eventually found). He approached the bridge too fast, lost control and flipped the car over the edge of the bridge, then escaped through the open window, leaving Mary Jo to drown or suffocate.
His claim of repeated rescue attempts is implausible, as is the likelihood that Mary Jo was driving (given where she was found in the car).
Teddy spent the next 10 hours sobering up and trying to come up with some scenario that made him look as good as possible under the circumstances. But I think he knew at that point that his aim for higher political office was gone.
Yes...he did commit murder
What a bunch of "blarney"( there that Irish enough for you Kennedy geeks) This womanizer killed that girl.