Daily Caller: By a strange coincidence, my family was vacationing on Cape Cod in 1969 when the Chappaquiddick incident occurred.
And so, when he film “Chappaquiddick” opens this week, I’ll be one of the early viewers.
The story is that my mother had decided that my brother and I were old enough to have an “educational enrichment” vacation. Dad dutifully drove us from Silver Spring, Maryland to Boston. After touring the Revolutionary War sites, we moved on to Cape Cod.
Cape Cod was important. Mom cherished all things Jackie. So, off we went.
Being used to the sandy beaches of Ocean City, Maryland, my brother and I was unimpressed by pebbly Cape Cod.
Then Chappaquiddick happened. It had a special meaning for us, as there were Hill staffers in our neighborhood. This was back when staffers had a special metal plate bolted to the bottom of their license plates – they were easy to spot on the street. (Many of them had come from Pennsylvania to seek their fortune in Washington, D.C.)
Then the news broke out about how something went terribly wrong at a bridge at Martha’s Vineyard. Senator Ted Kennedy was involved. His staffer, Mary Jo Kopechne, had died.
We didn’t have a television in our cabin, so we drove to Falmouth and stood with a crowd who were watching Kennedy’s speech through a television store window.
My father had stood in the bitter cold in January 1961 to be at John F. Kennedy’s inaugural. In 1963, my dad and his brother stood in line for hours in the bitter November cold to pay their respects to the assassinated president lying in state in the Capitol.
But that evening in Falmouth, my mother watched Ted Kennedy. She turned to me and hissed: You’re never working for that man.
The glowing Camelot/Kennedy aura had faded to black in the blink of an eye. more
Teddy for President:
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Sorry to post off topic, I just didn’t have access to a computer the past 2 days.
Thanks all for the replies, very nice comments. I didn’t think you’d guess me since I don’t post often, but I figured since I read the blog everyday I should be part of the action.
@Claudia @ConservativeCowgirl thanks 😉
@Sally I don’t think I am related to Gold L. directly, although it is possible we are far relations since there aren’t that many Leffs.
@cato Why can’t you visit? We’d love to have you. You can have your granddaughter send me an email for some info if she wants, you can get my email from BFH. And good job on the Hebrew, you got it 100%.
Sadly, it was safer traveling in a Saturn V rocket that weekend than in Teddy’s Oldsmobile Delmont 88…
I grew up in Boston. Although quite young, I remember watching the press conference as clearly as I remember watching the moon landing. My mother was so angry she left the room. My father said “he killed that girl.”
We saw the movie yesterday. There were some women sitting behind us, our age or older, and after the film, one of them kept mispronouncing Chappaquiddick, so my husband corrected them. These ladies wondered if it was a true story. I was so angry, I had to walk away as my husband spoke with them.
At the end of the film, the film shows “man-on-the street” interviews and so many people said they would still vote for him. They certainly did. When my husband found me in the lobby, all I could say was those women, they would have voted for him. (They probably voted for Obama too, twice.)
It is a well made film and worth seeing.
It makes me so angry: if you are rich, politically connected and democrat, you can get away with murder.
Teddy Kennedy may have escaped man’s justice when he killed Mary Jo Kopechne but he as sure as heck didn’t escape eternal justice. I despise the Kennedy’s every last damned one of them. No one is above the law ever, I don’t care who you are and what your family and political connections are, we are all equal under God’s law which is the way it should be.
“The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge – I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers” ~ John Adams
unfortunately, those that guard that knowledge do not allow any negative knowledge from one particular political party
I hope FDR in Hell reports that Teddy’s job down there is lifeguard in the Lake of Fire
It is rumored down here that Teddy is doggie-paddling in the Lake of Fire and yelling for help, but there are NO lifeguards in sight.
Satan drives by every once in a while in his little flaming Chevy VOLT, but he never even slows down. 👿
Truth be told, as an Irish Catholic, I was very proud when John F. Kennedy was elected President. That was back in 1960. I was still in the Army in 1963 when he was assassinated. It broke my heart. But that was a long time ago. I heard from people along the way that Bobby Kennedy was a vicious prick. But I didn’t like what happened to the man. Then came Ted, Harvaaard cheat, Army fuck up, and elected Senator. Opened our borders to all, but cut back on European legal immigrants. We are having to deal with what that son of a bitch and his democrat cohorts, did
to our immigration policy and laws today. No medical exams, no police reports, no vetting whatsoever for immigrants from the most diseased parts of the world. Ted Kennedy did it along with Biden, Dodge and others. Now President Trump has to deal with it. And Trump is getting no help from anyone. Ted Kennedy lit the match to destroy this country, Obama fanned the fire, Hillary would have burned it down. That’s the truth. Help President Trump any way you can. No one should be allowed into any country without assurance that you are able bodied, healthy, and not a criminal, and you will not become a ward of the State on day one. It’s assasine.
BTW. I am an immigrant. Spent 4 years in the army, became a citizen, 20 years in the NYPD, 15 years in construction, and enjoyed every minute of it, until these last 10 years.
Back President Trump. He’s a good guy. Believe me. I can’t stand what the fuc is going on these days.
Thank you for your service, Moe Tom – both in and out of the Military.
You’re the kind of immigrant that built this nation, and the kind we need more of today. Hopefully Trump can do something about that situation soon.
I’ve been a hard core education activist for years, so I’m incensed over another of Teddy’s abominations. After the 2000 election, there was great hope about the Bush administration, especially with one of the leading ed reformers, Lynne Cheney, now in the highest circles. But Lynne was shuffled off to insignificance and Kennedy got a weak Bush to agree to the nightmarish No Child Left Behind legislation that did nothing g to restore serious education or provide ed choice freedom, and instead VASTLY expanded federal control of education.