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  • easy rider

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    I unfortunately am old enough to have lived at that time and the things you are repeating is pretty much what we all heard and remember.

    They were at a party and she drowned in Kennedy's car after it drove off a bridge. He didn't report her death or the wreck until the next morning.

    When they retrieved the car from the water they found her body in the back seat. Assumptions were made as he had the wreck, didn't report her death because of the scandal involved.

    Last year there was a story that came out about someone who knew something about the event and relayed this story.

    They had gone to a party as young single girls. The Kopechne girl like to drink but didn't hold it well. She had to much to drink and wanted to lay down for a while so she went to Kennedy's car and got in the back seat. The other person said she passed out and was left to sleep it off.

    In the meantime Kennedy went to his car, ?with another girl?, and they had the wreck at the bridge. They were not seriously hurt and the girl was taken home and he returned to the house and went to sleep. The next morning the wreck was being investigated and the body was found.

    I'm sorry but I don't have a 'link' for you but the rest of the article/reporting was that Kennedy never knew anyone was in the backseat passed out. In the dark, after drinking and leaving with a young girl, there was no inspection of the back, remember those were big backseats then, so she was not seen.

    After the wreck they got out of the water without knowing anyone else was involved. The report was from someone with knowledge of the event and after many years decided it needed to be reported correctly.

    I had the same opinion of Kennedy as you but after hearing the story I have a different one. The story also makes the known events that were reported the next day make a lot more sense than they did then.
    It's certainly easy to convince people of no wrong doing after many years, especially since he had gotten away with any wrong doing if there had been any. I'm sure the Kennedy's are as pure as the driven snow.
     

    TheDan

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    I unfortunately am old enough to have lived at that time and the things you are repeating is pretty much what we all heard and remember.

    They were at a party and she drowned in Kennedy's car after it drove off a bridge. He didn't report her death or the wreck until the next morning.

    When they retrieved the car from the water they found her body in the back seat. Assumptions were made as he had the wreck, didn't report her death because of the scandal involved.

    Last year there was a story that came out about someone who knew something about the event and relayed this story.

    They had gone to a party as young single girls. The Kopechne girl like to drink but didn't hold it well. She had to much to drink and wanted to lay down for a while so she went to Kennedy's car and got in the back seat. The other person said she passed out and was left to sleep it off.

    In the meantime Kennedy went to his car, ?with another girl?, and they had the wreck at the bridge. They were not seriously hurt and the girl was taken home and he returned to the house and went to sleep. The next morning the wreck was being investigated and the body was found.

    I'm sorry but I don't have a 'link' for you but the rest of the article/reporting was that Kennedy never knew anyone was in the backseat passed out. In the dark, after drinking and leaving with a young girl, there was no inspection of the back, remember those were big backseats then, so she was not seen.

    After the wreck they got out of the water without knowing anyone else was involved. The report was from someone with knowledge of the event and after many years decided it needed to be reported correctly.

    I had the same opinion of Kennedy as you but after hearing the story I have a different one. The story also makes the known events that were reported the next day make a lot more sense than they did then.
    Oh ok, so he was just a negligent murderer not an intentional one...
     

    F350-6

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    After the wreck they got out of the water without knowing anyone else was involved. The report was from someone with knowledge of the event and after many years decided it needed to be reported correctly.
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    Right. Because if old Teddy was really innocent like that, there was no reason for this kind of truth to come out. That's why Teddy must have lied about he was going to take her to the ferry, and how he tried to rescue her when they went in the water.

    I've heard that story too. Never believed it. Sounds like a plausible story and one they should have pushed to the media if they would have only made it up sooner.
     

    benenglish

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    Putting aside my snark, I find the story hard to believe. When the car hit the water, the deceleration would have been very rapid. The person in the back seat would have flown forward, hitting the folks in the front seat. Even in the confusion of the moment, how do you not realize you just got hit in the back of the head with a human body, even if she was so passed-out drunk that she didn't verbalize her presence?

    That scenario just isn't credible.
     
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