“Tom Baldwin. Sources close to the veteran Massachusetts senator acknowledge that he will have to address the subject of Chappaquiddick in the book but say that it remains “out of bounds” in both public interviews and private conversations.”
Old civil rights cases from the 1960’s have been retried. Kennedy was never tried for violating Kopechne’s civil rights by use of his office. So this is still an open issue, theoretically. Kennedy shouldn’t profit from Chappaquiddick.
If Kennedy had not covered up Chappaquiddick, he might have faced some prison and the end of his political career. This 8 million dollars is from his not calling the police. Kopechne was alive in an air bubble when Kennedy went back to his hotel room promising to call the police, according to the police diver the next monring. He said he was on call and would have been called out and would have saved her.
Kennedy promised others to call, and stopped them from calling by his false promise. He then went back to his hotel room and called others as phone records showed. Kennedy was possibly complaining that Wasp bigots would use this against him, at the very time Mary Jo Kopechne was still alive in an air bubble. If he had called the police he could have saved her instead of complaining that Wasp bigots would use it against him politically.
If he had called the police then, she would have been saved, but Kennedy would have faced charges of leaving an accident scene without reporting it promptly and possibly being drunk and facing a variety of charges. He traded her life to protect himself by leaving the scene instead of calling the police at the nearby house. This is an indecent deal for an indecent man.
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November 28, 2007 at 8:16 pm
A murderer in the Senate, an adulterer for President, a KKK official in the Congress, and another one who keeps large amounts of cash in his office fridge, and doubt there are others less well known. My we do set a moral high standard for public office.
December 1, 2007 at 7:52 am
They also ruin our country with third world immigration and don’t seem to care. They are stupefied by the daily rituals of money and power. They think how they are treated makes them and their policies above those of mere mortals. But their hubris is our downfall. We have to make ourselves heard in letters to the editor, calls and mail to Congress and the political parties and candidates. Now is when they will listen. Write to the campaigns, even Hillary, Obama, Edwards, and Huckabee and tell them to stop all legal immigration.