My Kennedy post.
I was living in Massachusetts when Ted Kennedy drove Mary Jo Kopechne off the Chappaquiddick Bridge, and despite being a champion swimmer, left her to die in a car that was barely submerged. At the time, rumors abounded that she was pregnant with his love-child, but since her autopsy was sealed, we'll never know one way or the other.
He then left the scene of that "accident", a chargeable felony.
At the time, all the details of the post-mortem investigation were sealed, not because there was no need to know, but because Teddy-boy was a Kennedy, and Kennedys have been "royals" in Massachusetts ever since the patriarch, Joe, formed his rum-running Irish Mafia back in the Twenties.
The only Kennedy worth writing history about was Jack, who I met in person in 1959, but the clan continues, to this day, infesting American politics as if every single Kennedy was born with a right to be elected.
Now we must put up with days, to weeks, to a month or more of "National Mourning".
I'm not going to mourn, I'm just going to look out to see which one of that God-forsaken clan gets "anointed" to be the next Massachusetts Senator.
BTW, the Latin title translates to "Rest In Hell"
Joe Junior, killed (more-or-less) In Action when his B24 blew up on take off, may have been worth a line or two. Unfortunately, the only lines on the topic I've seen have been in one of those WEB Griffin OSS Potboilers.
Posted by: d.W. Drang | August 26, 2009 at 11:05
Did I miss something? She was probably rapped and then left to drown and die. The Kennedys are notorious for coming such crimes. Hate to say it, but it’s true.
Posted by: bblack | August 28, 2009 at 11:44
Hey, bro. Did you ever deliberately kill anyone, let alone accidentally? Mebbe so. Casting the first stone, eh?
ED. NOTE: Far from casting the first stone, Sis. If all those who feel the way I do about Old Joe's Third son each cast just one stone, Cape Cod would be just a rocky outcrop.
Plus, you forget that I follow a warrior's code in regard to any death I caused during battle....
Posted by: Rivrsis | August 29, 2009 at 19:33