{"id":1712153,"date":"2022-10-26T14:18:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712153"},"modified":"2022-10-26T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:18:43","slug":"craven-teddy-kennedy-wanted-to-say-mary-jo-kopechne-was-driving-at-chappaquiddick-book-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/craven-teddy-kennedy-wanted-to-say-mary-jo-kopechne-was-driving-at-chappaquiddick-book-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Craven\u2019: Teddy Kennedy Wanted To Say Mary Jo Kopechne Was Driving At Chappaquiddick, Book Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcraven-teddy-kennedy-wanted-to-say-mary-jo-kopechne-was-driving-at-chappaquiddick-book-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712153&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A new book alleges that after Ted Kennedy left his car and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, in a pond off of Chappaquiddick Island, where Kopechne drowned, he returned to the party they had attended and told his close friends he wanted to say Kopechne was driving the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Former Boston Globe journalist John Farrell\u2019s new book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ted-Kennedy-Life-John-Farrell-ebook\/dp\/B09R6W3ZKV\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=WH7IKHT9SKG0&#038;keywords=ted+kennedy+a+life&#038;qid=1666805414&#038;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjY3IiwicXNhIjoiMS4yOCIsInFzcCI6IjEuMzEifQ%3D%3D&#038;s=digital-text&#038;sprefix=Ted+Kennedy%3A+A+Life%2Cdigital-text%2C114&#038;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Kennedy: A Life<\/a>,\u201d draws on information from the private diaries of famed historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a close friend of the Kennedy family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cKennedy\u2019s subsequent behavior qualified as craven,\u201d Farrell writes of Kennedy\u2019s actions after he drove off Dike Bridge and into Poucha Pond, where he escaped the sunken car as Kopechne was trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cKennedy got to his feet and jogged and stumbled back to the party,\u201d Farrell writes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Reaching the party, Farrell continues, Kennedy did not alert the other women at the party, but instead crawled into a car in the driveway and asked for two lawyer friends, his cousin Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham, to be brought to him. Once they arrived, the three men took off for the pond; Kopechne had been in the car under water for over 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Although Gargan and Markham dove into the water to see if they could rescue her, Kennedy, according to Farrell, \u201cwas no help at all,\u201d lying on the bridge while \u201cmoaning and rocking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Farrell writes that after the abortive attempt, Kennedy thought of how to hide what had happened. \u201cWhy, he asked Gargan and Markham, did the world have to know he was driving the car? Couldn\u2019t Mary Jo have driven off the bridge herself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As Kennedy and the two men sat at the ferry landing, Farrell writes, Kennedy told them, \u201cYou take care of the girls,\u201d referring to the other young women at the party. \u201cI will take care of the accident.\u201d He swam across the harbor, leaving the two men assuming he was heading to the police station or reporting the accident to someone so he could turn himself in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">At roughly 2 a.m., Kennedy appeared \u201cdry and dressed\u201d to ask the clerk at the Shiretown Inn for the time, then later joined two friends for a chat, Farrell states. By the time he saw the two lawyers the next morning, he still insisted, \u201cI\u2019m going to tell them Mary Jo was driving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cIn retrospect, Kennedy\u2019s behavior looks like the actions of a man who wants to establish an alibi as his friends concoct a story that absolves him,\u201d Farrell writes. \u201cOr alternatively, a drunk driver waiting for the alcohol in his bloodstream to diminish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cIt \u2026 encouraged suspicions \u2014 especially that he might have been drunk and postponed reporting the accident until the alcohol could be absorbed in his system,\u201d Schlesinger wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book alleges that after Ted Kennedy left his car and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, in a pond off of Chappaquiddick Island, where Kopechne drowned, he returned to the party they had attended and told his close friends he wanted to say Kopechne was driving the car. Former Boston Globe journalist John Farrell\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1712156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}