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August 26, 2009
RIP Mary Jo Koepchne
Mary Jo Kopechne, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was the only child of insurance salesman Joseph Kopechne and his wife, Gwen.
Probably most people alive today have never heard of Mary Jo Koepchne. Of those that know who she is, fewer still have been to the scene of the crime where the late Senator Ted Kennedy drove into Lake Chappaquiddick and managed to save his own life, but left her to die, then lied and tried to cover the whole thing up.
I've been to Lake Chappaquiddick on Martha's Vineyard. We hopped the ferry from New Bedford and went to the exact spot where Uncle Teddy drove into the "lake". You could swim across it drunk, at night, with a bottle of gin in each hand. It isn't deep. It isn't wide. It isn't much of a lake.
As a matter of fact, the residents of the island used to have an invitation swim there on the island. They called it the Ted Kennedy Lake Chappaquiddick Invitation Swim. The summer I was there it was at the tail-end of summer, just after Labor Day of '93 or '94, as I recall. President Clinton and the other vermin that comprise his family had just vacated the island and I was invited to participate in the 5th Annual Ted Kennedy Lake Chappaquiddick Invitational Swim, in honor of Mary Jo Koepchne. It was the first time I'd ever heard her name. Their slogan was "Ted Had a Fifth - So Can We". I remember the commemorative T-shirts well.
And these locals showed me where the incident took place and I was just shocked. Just dumbfounded that anyone could have downed there. And today, the world is discovering that Ted Kennedy has died and not a word is mentioned of the fact that he got away with murder, or manslaughter, at a bare minimum.
Rest In Peace, Mary Jo Koepchne.
(July 26, 1940 - July 18, 1969)
Posted by Rob Kiser on August 26, 2009 at 12:45 AM
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