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

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edwest211 said:
Another layer of baloney. I was around for the Chappaquiddick incident. Research clearly shows that Ted Kennedy was not to blame. Bringing up the other Kennedys is not relevant here.
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I believe he had his driver’s license revoked for one year due to this incident.
 
I’ve researched the whole thing. Ted Kennedy was not at fault. He did what he could.
 
I believe that was for leaving the scene of a crash causing personal injury, which Kennedy did not deny (he pled guilty).
 
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edwest211 said:
I’ve researched the whole thing. Ted Kennedy was not at fault. He did what he could.
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Many people have researched the whole thing and come to different conclusions, including that he left the scene of an accident and lost his driver’s license over it. He also received a suspended sentence. That is not doing “what he could.”
 
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The town has subsequently rebuilt the bridge so that it no longer resembles the crime scene.
 
Must be a conspiracy!

Oh, wait a second…

… they only added guard rails.

Good idea.
 
townhall.com

The Grisly History of Chappaquiddick

On April 6, a bombshell will hit America's theaters.
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So, why is the film important?

It’s important because it doesn’t traffic in rumors and innuendo – there is no attempt to claim that Kopechne was having an affair with Kennedy, or that she was pregnant with his child. It’s important because it doesn’t paint Kennedy as a monster but as a deeply flawed and somewhat pathetic scion of a dark and manipulative family. But most of all, it’s important for two reasons: It’s the first movie to actually tackle a serious Democratic scandal in the history of modern film, and it reminds us that Americans have long been willing to overlook scandal for the sake of political convenience.
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AngelaMarie said:
As is true with Hollywood, some of the movie is made up and not based in fact
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And as that article points out, everyone who knows for sure, is dead. We can speculate all we want, but that’s all it is - speculation.
 
I watched the movie yesterday afternoon.
I thought it was well done.
What puzzles me is how he got out of the car, but she didn’t. We will never know the true events of what happened that night, but it was due opening how he expected others to get him out of trouble.
He was a Kennedy! Another self entitled politician.
 
edwest211 said:
I’ve researched the whole thing. Ted Kennedy was not at fault. He did what he could.
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He really didn’t. He actually told friends about it during the night, who were appalled that he failed to report the accident. The young woman’s body was found eventually the next day, but not because of any help from Ted Kennedy. No-one would have expected him to have been able to save her himself, but everyone would have expected him to call the police and rescue services in without delay.

He also wasn’t exonerated, he received a two-month suspended jail sentence for leaving the scene of an accident. These are facts, even if you admired Ted Kennedy you can’t deny that this sorry incident happened.
 
In the movie it showed him going back to the house where the party was being held. He was already in damage control
state of mind. In the movie, he got 2 of his friends to go back to the scene of the
accident. They dove into the water to try to open the doors of the vehicle to get her out. The car was upside down in the
water. They couldn’t open the doors or break the windows. In the movie, after the accident, it showed Ted in the water
also swimming around trying to open the doors. Whether that all really happened, no one will ever know. The water was not that deep. You could see the tires stiking out of the water. I wondered why they didn’t try to push the car over. Anyhow, his two friends remained on Chappaquiddick and told Ted when he got back to Edgartown to notify the authorities. He did not notify anyone until the next morning. There also was no autopsy done on Mary Jo.
It is a mystery to me how Ted was able to save himself and how he was not trapped in the car.
 
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That sounds in line with his testimony that he returned to the house where the party was being held and went back to the scene of the accident with some friends, who tried to reach the young woman without success.

He actually went back to his hotel after this and even complained in the early hours to the desk clerk about the noise from an event that was going on. His explanation for it all was that he was in shock and had concussion - he couldn’t explain how he managed to get out of the car himself.

The sad thing is, there was an occupied house only 150 yards away from the bridge, and the owner testified that she had left a light on. He could have called the police from there within minutes. He also walked past several other houses on the way back to the party.
 
CD45 said:
Hmmm. I wonder if we will have Trump haters as long as we have had Kennedy haters? (Over 50 years and counting,)
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I don’t think anyone hated JFK or RFK the way they hate Trump. Everyone mourned their deaths. But I see people calling for Trump’s death for pulling out of the Paris Climate Deal. Among other things. The guy hasn’t even started a war, and Bush and Cheney are made out to be saints in comparison to him.

But people definitely hated Teddy… and for case alone (the story in question of Chappaquiddick).
 
CD45 said:
I don’t think that many people actually “hate” Trump. They just make him the punch line in a lot of jokes and, generally, dismiss him as a fool.
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That one is almost as odd to me. If he’s a fool, then that means they got beat by a fool… making themselves the bigger fools. Either that, or they think everyone who voted for him is a fool. Which is around 50 million people. It doesn’t seem statistically possible.

Anyways 😛
 
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Yes, there was the cottage within yards of where the accident happened. If he had only stopped there to ask for help. I assume there was phone service. The ferry had stopped running. If his friends had help accompany him back to Edgartown and go with him to the police station would have been better and if he had sought medical treatment for himself.
 
Isca said:
he was in shock and had concussion
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Is that true, that he had a concussion?

Brain injuries can really dull decision making skills and cause blackouts.

I’m not very familiar with the story. I do think my parents had a book about it back in the 70’s.
 
CD45 said:
Hmmm. I wonder if we will have Trump haters as long as we have had Kennedy haters? (Over 50 years and counting,)
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Oh, given the family’s history there have likely been Kennedy haters as long as there have been Kennedys.
F_Marturana said:
Is that true, that he had a concussion?

Brain injuries can really dull decision making skills and cause blackouts.

I’m not very familiar with the story. I do think my parents had a book about it back in the 70’s.
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I would agree to that - if it wasn’t for the fact that in Ted’s case he TOLD people what happened and they told him to do something, and he didn’t. I’d go along with the concussion theory if he’d just blacked out that he’d been in the accident or even had forgotten she was with him entirely and had gone into self-preservation mode. It all legitimately happens and the brain is quite a wondrous organ.

I think the Kennedys have actually done quite a bit for the common man and that Joe Sr. had the right idea when he apparently taught his kids that what we have is by the hard work of others, you are fortunate, now go out and do good for the benefit of those who don’t have what you have. But Ted’s mistakes here are overwhelming for me sometimes.
 
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Pup7 said:
Oh, given the family’s history there have likely been Kennedy haters as long as there have been Kennedys.
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Joe Kennedy the elder started out smuggling liquor to evade taxation.
 
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