‘Chappaquiddick’ Is A Brutally Honest Movie Laying Bare The Kennedys For Who

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Oh no…(I’m chuckling)…here we go… the Clinton Coincidence.

(I’m only half laughing…that’s creepy too!)
 
I’m fairly sure I’ve been to that bridge, years ago. I was a callow youth at the time and didn’t know or care much about the Kennedy’s so whatever reference was made to it went straight over my head.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
At this point in history, and speaking as someone who was alive during Chappaquiddick and has read a bunch of books on the Kennedys since then, is there anyone in USA who is NOT aware at this point of all the problems the Kennedy family had with women and Chappaquiddick and everything else?

This was not exactly covered up - it would rear its head every time Ted was considered as a possible presidential candidate, which happened several times. I seem to recall once he almost got the nomination, even, in spite of Chappaquiddick.

Ted Kennedy has been dead for a long time. The younger Kennedy grandchild who seems to be a rising star in the Dem party was certainly not involved in all this. Seems like a moot point, or a historical curiosity that will appeal to those who like “Mad Men” - era films.
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I think the misdeeds of JFK have certainly been minutely analysed. I agree he did a power of good, along with plenty of not-so-good.

I do think younger generations know little if anything about Chappaquiddick specifically. I heard an interview with the filmmakers where one of them said he knew almost nothing about it until a passing comment was made during Teddy K’s appearance at the 2008 Democratic Convention. This inspired the research and writing of the book which has now become the movie.
 
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I think the misdeeds of JFK have certainly been minutely analysed. I agree he did a power of good, along with plenty of not-so-good.

I do think younger generations know little if anything about Chappaquiddick specifically. I heard an interview with the filmmakers where one of them said he knew almost nothing about it until a passing comment was made during Teddy K’s appearance at the 2008 Democratic Convention. This inspired the research and writing of the book which has now become the movie.
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He was a good president but was assasainated before he could fully prove his merits.
 
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The people behind the movie we’re talking about (whom I heard interviewed on a podcast) seem to think Teddy would have run in 1972, and quite possibly won on the strength of voters who remembered his brothers, had it not been for Chappaquiddick. That would have changed the Presidential history of … well, my entire life, pretty much. (I was born at the end of 1971, and have vague memories of Ford as President and clearer ones of the election that Carter won.)

Notably, the filmmakers also don’t seem to think that Kennedy and Kopechne were headed for a tryst at the time of the accident, though they didn’t mention the detail that Kopechne left her possessions behind. (Which is interesting because they were being interviewed on a podcast about conspiracy theories, so you’d think they would have played up suggestive elements like that.)
 
The film makers could care less what Ted Kennedy though

They’re interesting in making money and trashing popular name figures like the Kennedy’s, makes money, whether the film is totally true or not.

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If he had reported the accident immediately, he likely would have survived the scandal a lot better than he did even if MJK still died. Heck, if he had reported it when his friends told him to, he could have survived it better, his claims of concussion and disorientation up to that point would have been more credible.

It does say something for the company he kept at that time if his friends didn’t feel they could push him harder to report the accident asap or else do it for him.

That he left the scene without reporting the accident is the one fact I think everyone can agree on. It is after all the one fact he admitted to. Most everything else is speculation.

That he left the scene and didn’t report the accident for so long tarnished him for life. No matter what his defenders say and still say, even in this thread, for much of the electorate, it was still relevant to the end of his life. Did we want a president who so visibly ran away from responsibility? So people are disputing how many times did he actually run as a real candidate, doesn’t matter. What matters is the change in our history because he never got the chance to run in any November.
 
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tomarin said:
He was a good president but was assasainated before he could fully prove his merits.
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In reading about him and studying him school, I don’t see where he did much good - or bad - at all. He seems to have been a brilliant man, who could have accomplished much.
 
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They’re interesting in making money and trashing popular name figures like the Kennedy’s, makes money, whether the film is totally true or not.
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The bottom line for almost every movie that’s made - money. In itself, that’s not bad. People do have to make money, and I don’t expect people to make movies just for the fun of it. But the desire for lots and lots of money often causes people to speculate or outright distort the truth. I don’t like that. We will never know the truth about Chappaquiddick.
 
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