| | It was the location of the death on Friday, July 18, 1969, of an attractive young, blond woman after she left a summer party with a powerful married [[liberal]] [[Democrat]], Senator [[Ted Kennedy]], who then evaded justice for his crime relating to her death. The woman left her purse, driver's license, and room key at the party when she departed that evening with Senator Kennedy, and her underwear was missing when her dead body was recovered. | | It was the location of the death on Friday, July 18, 1969, of an attractive young, blond woman after she left a summer party with a powerful married [[liberal]] [[Democrat]], Senator [[Ted Kennedy]], who then evaded justice for his crime relating to her death. The woman left her purse, driver's license, and room key at the party when she departed that evening with Senator Kennedy, and her underwear was missing when her dead body was recovered. |
| − | Kennedy never apologized to the victim's parents.<ref name="Parents">https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/mary-jo-kopechnes-parents/</ref> It remains unknown whether Kennedy was driving while intoxicated and/or had sex with the victim, whose parents were devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]]s. A 2017 critically acclaimed documentary movie entitled "Chappaquiddick" (called "The Senator" for its release in [[England]]), implied a relationship between Kennedy and the victim. Twenty year after the incident, the victim's father told a reporter that his daughter had not died in vain because it kept Ted Kennedy from ever becoming president.<ref name="Parents"/> | + | Kennedy reportedly made 17 phone calls, before eventually mentioning it to the police the following day. <ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7003193/Chappaquiddick-investigator-claims-warned-not-hard-questioning-Ted-Kennedy.html</ref> Kennedy never apologized to the victim's parents.<ref name="Parents">https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/mary-jo-kopechnes-parents/</ref> It remains unknown whether Kennedy was driving while intoxicated and/or had sex with the victim, whose parents were devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]]s. A 2017 critically acclaimed documentary movie entitled "Chappaquiddick" (called "The Senator" for its release in [[England]]), implied a relationship between Kennedy and the victim. Twenty year after the incident, the victim's father told a reporter that his daughter had not died in vain because it kept Ted Kennedy from ever becoming president.<ref name="Parents"/> |
| | Many of Kennedy's assertions about the incident were demonstrably false, even absurd. For example, Kennedy asserted that he had a concussion and was then given sedatives, which supposedly impaired his judgment afterwards. But sedatives are not given to victims of concussions. Kennedy also wore a phony neck brace to the funeral of the victim which Kennedy obviously did not need, and was doing simply for show. | | Many of Kennedy's assertions about the incident were demonstrably false, even absurd. For example, Kennedy asserted that he had a concussion and was then given sedatives, which supposedly impaired his judgment afterwards. But sedatives are not given to victims of concussions. Kennedy also wore a phony neck brace to the funeral of the victim which Kennedy obviously did not need, and was doing simply for show. |