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The truth behind Ted Kennedy's fateful crash into Poucha Pond.“My friend Mary Jo just happened to be in the wrong car at the wrong time with the wrong people.”—Rosemary Keough, the second passengerOne fateful night in Massachusetts, Sen. Ted Kennedy was involved in a fatal crash after driving his car from a party on Martha’s Vineyard. After launching his Oldsmobile 88 across Dike Bridge and into Poucha Pond, Kennedy escaped the submerged car and headed back to Edgartown. Why didn't he save the drowning woman in the rear seat of the car? More importantly, why was Mary Jo Kopechne in the rear seat if the two were traveling together? Suspicion and intrigue have clouded the public's opinion of Kennedy and his involvement with this “crime” for years, but the truth, as revealed here, takes all of the evidence into account and presents a clear explanation of the death at Chappaquiddick.
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In this work for general readers, author Donald Nelson, a physics professor, attempts to prove there was another passenger in the car with Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne on that summer night in Martha’s Vineyard when Kennedy’s car went off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island. The author finds flaws and cover-ups in the investigation into the accident and seeks to answer unsolved mysteries about the crash, such as why Kennedy told no one about the death of Kopechne when he returned to his cottage. The authors draws on police records, inquest testimony, newspaper accounts, and interviews, as well as later re-investigations by the Boston Globe in 1974 and the New York Times in 1980, and on the documentary Investigative Reports: Chappaquiddick. The author extends the possibility that Kennedy did not know that Kopechne was in the car, and was in fact leaving the gathering with someone else, a female companion, possibly Rosemary Keough, whose handbag and wallet were found in the submerged car. B&w historical photos are included. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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