"Many people still assume to this day that he was responsible for her death."
Are you old enough to remember Chappaquiddick? Or have you at least read something about it? Of course he was responsible for Mary Jo Kopechne's death. In fact, you could say he was responsible twice. Once, when he drove them off the bridge and again by not reporting it for nine hours, and that was only because he learned the car and body had been found and his friends made him contact authorities. The diver who recovered the body said she was face up in an air pocket and probably died of suffocation rather than drowning. He said she could have lived for hours after the crash. She was buried the next day without an autopsy being performed, which would have shown if she had drowned or not.
The only similarity between Chappaquiddock and the crash in Arbitrage is that two guys lied about a car accident. You can draw any parallels you want, but implying in any way that Ted Kennedy was not fully responsible for Kopechne's death is laughable. It wasn't murder, and Kennedy went on to do great things in the Senate, but that night and all through the inquests and examinations, he displayed the behavior that makes a lot of people hate the Kennedys.
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Clothes-Off
12 years ago
No, I was not alive when this happened. I only have archive knowledge of it. But my take was always today he had to have been responsible, and especially today when politicians resign over cell phone pic, it boggles the mind how he was able to stay in office. So when I saw this I figured some people must have assumed it was a freak thing he couldn't have helped. In either case, the woman would be alive if not for having gone with him.
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jawebster2000
11 years ago
In response to rookgaroo, I agree with most of what you said up to the point of your saying "he went on to do great things in the Senate". He was responsible for killing not only Mary Jo, but also Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. Kennedy was a big taxer and spender and nothing, in my opinion, like his two older brothers. JFK said, "Ask not, what your Country can do for you, ask what you can do for your Country". Ted Kennedy had the exact opposite political philosophy and our Country is the worse for it. The only positive thing I have to say for the entire Chappaquiddick mess, is at least it prevented from going on to be president!
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