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Mary Jo Kopechne tried to breathe from last air pocket of sinking car
  • Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, died after drowning in a car crash off the waters of Martha's Vineyard on July 18, 1996, known as the Chappaquiddick scandal
  • The car was driven by Senator Ted Kennedy, who fled the scene of the accident
  • He failed to report the accident for ten hours claiming he 'was overcome by a jumble of emotion – grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock'
  • New book Before Chappaquiddick, The Untold Story of Mary Jo Kopechne and the Kennedy Brothers takes a deeper look into Mary Jo's life and death
  • Ted never apologized to Mary Jo's parents but he went on national television to ask the people of Massachusetts for their forgiveness
    But see the graphic
  • The author reveals Mary Jo had been thrown into the back and her head was cocked back with her face pressed into the foot-well of the floor trying to get air
  • Despite Mary Jo being a loyal and trusted staffer to Robert Kennedy, the political family closed ranks and let the press run stories that she was an opportunist

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-05-21
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=572060