The Final Judgement of Ted Kennedy

On the night of July 18th 1969 Senator Ted Kennedy, intoxicated after leaving a regatta party, drove his car off a bridge at Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts. He escaped the sinking Oldsmobile and fled the scene, leaving behind Kennedy secretary Mary Jo Kopechne who drowned because of his failure to rescue her. Kennedy didn't notify authorities or rescue workers until 10 hours later. Two fishermen found the upside down car the next morning and called the sheriff. Divers discovered Ms. Kopechnes body pressed up toward the top where an air pocket would have been, which means she was alive at the time Senator Kennedy fled the scene. Kennedy did not inform the local authorities until he received news that the car and Ms. Kopechne's body had been found. In a statement released by the Senator he said "I attempted to open the door and the window of the car but have no recollection of how I got out of the car." Kennedy plead guilt to leaving the scene of an accident causing "injury". His sentence was suspended due to the citing of his age (38), character and reputation. (Just a reminder that Senator Kennedy would continue to be seen in public highly intoxicated and with young women for the next twenty years. Now he had a driver.)

To treat a case of manslaughter and failure to notify rescue workers as causing "injury" and to suspend sentence of a known alcoholic because of "reputation" is a travesty. Kennedy money (Ted gave Mary Jo's family $90,904 for their troubles. They also received $50,000 from the insurance company. They said they didn't pursue legal action against Kennedy because "we figured people would think we were looking for blood money") No autopsy was ever performed.

To combat the nickname "The Coward of Chappaquiddick", Kennedy aids marketed him as the "Lion of the Senate". Kennedy would continue his drunken parties from Hyannis Port to Miami well into the nineteen eighties.

Through his life Kennedy would be known as the Liberal champion of the poor. All the while spending 47 years in the U.S. Senate living off of tax-payer dollars and enjoying every perk that comes with the exclusive Senate club. Ted was never known as being generous with his Kennedy money, he felt that spending tax-payer dollars by 'spreading the wealth' was his calling and his good deed. This typical 'Limousine Liberal' had the hypocritical Catholic martyr complex.

Today Ted Kennedy will stand before God and be judged for his actions. I just hope Mary Jo Kopechne is given equal time.