However, a coroner did conduct a post-mortem and discovered the pregnancy, another insider claimed to The ENQUIRER. It was very puzzling. Ted Kennedy, Roberts brother, was also at the party, and Mary Jo and Ted left the party together. They said that if he had alerted the police right away, their daughter might still be alive. Joseph died at age 90 in an East Stroudsburg nursing home, in 2003. (@notdotforgotten) on Nov 3, 2018 at 11:39am PDT. Today theories abound as to whether she died from the water or lack of oxygen, but either way, her death was horrifying, sad, and didnt have to happen. The family has deep roots in the Wyoming Valley in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; Mary Jos roots in Wyoming County can be traced back 250 years. 'He was worried about himself, not Mary Jo,' her husband said. Mary Jos mother, Gwen, was a homemaker. 'They should try to explain. TedKennedy leaves St. Vincent's Church with his wife, Joan after attending the funeral Mass celebrated for Mary Jo Kopechne, Outside St. Vincent's Church, in Plymouth, the Kennedys were treated like rock stars. July 25, 1969: Ted Kennedy addresses Chappaquiddick accident. Mary Jo Kopechne, The Victim, Was Never Autopsied. SYND 11-12-69 MARY JO KOPECHNE PARENTS GIVE PRESS STATEMANT, (11 Dec 1969) Parents of Mary Jo Kopechne, who died in Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick Island, give press statement after court denies exhumation of her body You can license this story through AP Archive: aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/fe6d64dcd5a09832cca6f6a23a40ebb1 Find out more about AP Archive: aparchive.com/HowWeWork. Curiously, no official autopsy was performed on Mary Jos body and her family rushed her into the grave only a single day after her death! Mary Jo Kopechne's ties to the Kennedys went back five years to 1964 when she had been hired as a secretary to Bobby, then the US senator from New York. 'I have expressed my remorse and responsibility to my own family, to the Kopechne family and to the people of Massachusetts, and I express those sentiments again,' the Kennedy statement read. They attended the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, where Mary Jo also went to elementary school. Read more. You can spot people who are swingers and she was not one of them. Three days later, Ethel accompanied Ted and his wife, Joan, to the dreary mining town of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, where Mary Jo had been born. NEW YORK -- After 20 years of silence, the parents of Mary Jo Kopechne say the only satisfaction they received in the aftermath of their daughter's drowning at Chappaquiddick is that it kept. A private funeral for Kopechne was held at St. Vincent's Roman Catholic Church in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, on July 22, 1969. Investigator finally REVEALS TRUTH about Chappaquiddick. Ted Kennedy didn't abandon Mary Jo Kopechne when his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island he didn't even know she was in the car, according to a retired CIA operative. But when none of them was able to rescue Kopechne, Kennedy still did not call the police, waiting until authorities had discovered the car and Kopechnes dead body until he came forward. Ted, who had been in seclusion at the Kennedy compound since giving what was a vague statement to police, was wearing a neck brace. The private investigator, who agreed to speak to The ENQUIRER only on the condition of anonymity, said she was terrified to break her silence for fear Teds hatchet men would target her, as they had Mary Jo. (Getty) Somebody is hiding something. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Joseph Kopechne said at the couple's home somewhere in Pennsylvania that the only satisfaction he and his wife have is that 'Mary Jo's death kept the senator from becoming president.'. [7] Her grandfathers both worked as coal miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Like the Kennedys - and especially Ethel - Mary Jo was a staunch catholic, had attended parochial schools, and had spent a year teaching at the Mission of St. Jude in Montgomery, Alabama. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. Kennedy recounts how the night of the accident unfolded. Kennedy later said that he had not been under the influence of alcohol while driving and said he did not have a private relationship with Kopechne. I always wondered that these are really powerful people, the source said. He claimed he 'repeatedly dove down to the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car. The fatal one-car accident in Chappaquiddick (pictured) occurred after Ted Kennedy, behind the wheel, and Kopechne, in the passenger seat, left a celebration - a reunion for Kopechne and five other women known as the 'Boiler Room Girls', A week after the accident, on July 25, 1969, Ted Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident and causing bodily injury. At some point later in the evening, Kennedy and the politician's wife wanted "some alone time" and didn't want to do anything in front of the group, so they got in the car and drove eventually plunging off the bridge into the water. Kennedy left the party, according to reports, at 11:15. The prosecutors agreed with Kennedy's high-powered attorneys to suspended any jail sentence. When Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968 just a year before Chappaquiddick Mary Jo, who had a close relationship with Bobby, was devastated. Bobby had often thrown caution to the wind when pursuing women, even at Hickory Hill, so it was no surprise to Kennedy insiders that he would 'come on' to Mary Jo Kopechne in the family home. As a result, there are some who have speculated that theres more to Kopechnes death that meets the eye. The operative says unbeknownst to either Kennedy or the politician's wife, Mary Jo apparently was unable to sleep in the house because of the noise, so she went into the back seat of the car where she fell asleep which is where she died. While Ted claimed he and Mary Jo were little more than acquaintances, it can now be revealed, it was Bobby who had first taken a more than casual liking to Mary Jo, who somewhat resembled Bobby's wife Ethel, mother of their eleven children. [7] She was a devout Roman Catholic, with a demure, serious, "convent school" demeanor, and rarely drank much.[7][20][21]. [3][8] She was raised Catholic and attended parochial schools. Outside St. Vincent's Church, in Plymouth, the Kennedys were treated like rock stars. They both swam to shore safely. Ted Kennedy covered up more than an affair on the night that he drove Mary Jo Kopechne off a bridge in Chappaquiddick the campaign aide was also pregnant with his child, as reported in a bombshell National ENQUIRER exclusive on newsstands now! #Kennedy #Chappaquiddick #Kopechne In 1969, a black Oldsmobile driven by U.S. Photo by ANL/REX/Shutterstock/People. 'We get a phone call just to find out how bitter we are and whether we're going to be cooperative,' said Mrs. Kopechne. Prince Harry is the one royal who has addressed his family's connection to slavery more explicitly. [11] After graduation, Kopechne moved to Montgomery, Alabama, for a year at the Mission of St. Jude,[3] which participated in the Civil Rights Movement. "She was quiet, self-effacing, never bragged," Kluge says. According to the New York Times, Kennedy decided to leave the party at 11:15 p.m., at which time Kopechne asked if he could give her a ride. 'Can't he relieve us of this? After the accident on Chappaquiddick speculation was rampant that 37-year-old Ted, the popular and handsome US Senator from Massachusetts, married with three children - but also a heavy drinker and womanizer - was headed for a sexual tryst with pretty Mary Jo, a five-foot-two blue-eyed blonde who was a week away from celebrating her twenty-ninth birthday. In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI's capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. I was unsuccessful in the attempt. The car went off the side of the bridge., Kennedy denied any accusations that he was intoxicated at the time. Just days after a dramatic retelling of the fatal incident hit movie screens, The National ENQUIRER can also reveal a notorious Kennedy family fixer was in the car and Mary Jo was killed to prevent her baby from ever drawing a single breath and to save his presidential ambitions! His 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, was killed in the accident. By the way, in case you dont know, suspended means Ted didnt serve a single day in prison. The Kennedy clan, though, is, naturally, not happy about the film. Dr. Donald R. Mills, the countys associate medical examiner, performed the autopsy on Kopechne. [3][10], Kopechne was inspired by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural command "Ask what you can do for your country". ', As Kiker described the incident, 'It was the Chappaquiddick syndrome long before Chappaquiddick. ted was found guilty of a hit-and-run. [4] They subsequently moved to Swiftwater, Pennsylvania. Ted Kennedy hid an incredible secret about the night he drove Mary Jo Kopechne off a bridge in Chappaquiddick the campaign staffer was pregnant with Massachusetts senators child! [18] She was on her way to a successful professional career;[21] one of the political professionals who worked with her in Jersey City characterized her as "an exceptionally hard-working and skillful professional who knew her craft". He commuted to a job in the New Jersey shipyards before eventually finding work as an accountant and moving his family to East Orange, New Jersey when Mary Jo was four years old. Now you see it Debbie McGee's riverside home floods again as banks of the Thames burst around star's Former Man United star looks unrecognisable as he has pint with a fan in a Manchester pub but can you Michael Olise's STUNNING injury-time free-kick denies Man United all three points as Crystal Palace snatch 'I don't know, Jeff! [4] Her mother died in a nursing home in Plains Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 2007. Meta WILL 'free the nipple': Facebook and Instagram lift ban on bare breasts because it 'impeded right to How Covid pandemic led to a boom in young women who freeze their eggs by increasing concerns over ticking Thousands of cars could become 'death traps on wheels' as the Government plans to turn the annual MOT into a DAN WOOTTON: Jeremy Clarkson made a mistake, but Amazon and ITV looking to cancel one of Britain's favourite MailOnline readers back Jeremy Clarkson to keep his job on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Back in the Sixties, Douglas Kiker had been one of the top reporters for NBC News, covering such major stories as the Vietnam War, and the civil rights movement, and he was one of the elite journalists who were part of the Bobby and Ethel's elite circle. When Mary Jo was four, he found work as an insurance salesman and moved the family to East Orange, New Jersey. The FBI's FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. As The ENQUIRER previously reported. If you change your mind, go to Notifications in the menu to enable browser notifications. mary jos death was officially ruled as drowning and/or suffocation. Joseph and Gwen were both the children of coal miners who had worked in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. I saw him! The cops escorted her back into Hickory Hill. The hearing, the inquest -- it was all a farce. (11 Dec 1969) Parents of Mary Jo Kopechne, who died in Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick Island, give press statement after court denies exhumation of h. The darkest of these was that Mary Jo Kopechne had been pregnant with his child and he had crashed intentionally to kill her and avoid a marital scandal. She always went along with whatever he wanted.'. [11] One former student recalled her as, "a petite strawberry blonde with pep in her step. [28] Even otherwise sympathetic, mainstream biographers believed there were outstanding serious questions about Kennedy's timeline of events that night, specifically his actions following the incident. At one point, I think it was in the stable at Hickory Hill, Ethel caught Bobby and Mary Jo in an embrace, which Bobby excused as a pat on the back for Mary Jo's good work.'. Kopechne is pictured above with Kennedy, Kopechne was part of a group of five women named the'Boiler Room Girls'. I think there was a big cover-up and that everybody was paid off. she and Kennedy were acquaintances but not. HEADLINING hunk Brad Pitt wont accept responsibility for the failure of his Roaring Twentiesscreen stinker Babylon and is secretly shifting the blame for the box-office flop onto hapless castmate Margot Robbie, sources squeal. ': Chris Kamara's legendary moment after missing a red card, ITV's clanger in cutting MIKE KEEGAN: Temporary concussion substitutes will NOT be trialled in the Premier League, as Sportsmail Britain's FBI warns LA's drug mules to stay at home: Another two passengers are caught at Heathrow with Laura Kenny is pregnant! Kennedy dove into the water repeatedly to try and save the girl until going into shock. Instead, Ted waited until the following morning to call the cops, but by that time the police had already found her body. I think all of them were shut up. For a long time, I was very nervous and afraid about coming forward. en route to the ferry, mary jo and ted crashed the car into a pond from which ted escaped and mary jo did not. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the "Boiler Room Girls". Kennedy had been in a car accident, one week earlier while driving home from a party on the night of July.18/1969, when he missed the mouth of a narrow bridge on a dirt road in the darkness and plunged into Chappaquiddick Strait. They went there because the politician's wife was at the party and Kennedy wanted to hook up with her. Aired in 1991 on Current Affair. At an inquest following the incident, Ted testified water was rushing in on all sides of the car. Although the local district attorney petitioned to have Mary Jos body exhumed, her parents and Ted shown here at her funeral opposed this measure. A second person, who was close to Ted and the Kennedy family in '69, confirmed the operative's story. Mary Jo Kopechne was at the party . ', A surviving relative of Mary Jo, a 75-year-old aunt, however, told People 'For 49 years, people have wanted to know what happened. The operative says cops immediately knew the politician's wife was in the car, because she had left her purse on the front seat. To be fair, he did plead guilty to leaving the scene and received a suspended sentence of two months in prisonboo hoo for him, right? A petition to exhume the body for autopsy was denied by a Pennsylvania court. As one family insider told me: 'It's bringing up all that same old Chappaquiddick scandal s**t again. Mary Jo was a good Catholic girl, didn't smoke, despised profanity, and rarely drank; yet the media decided she must have been pregnant with the senator's baby. ACCLAIMED news icon Barbara Walters went to her grave carrying a heavy load of behind-the-scenes feuds and secrets! They said she would not have been unfaithful to him because, the mother explained, 'She wasn't a fickle girl.'. [5] It also includes some of the hundreds of condolence letters that Kopechne's parents received. mary jo did not tell anyone that she was leaving the party at all, let alone who she was traveling with, and she left her purse and keys behind on the island. Ted apparently held Mary Jo a pretty blonde with a slight build and the prim manner of a devout Catholic girl in high regard. In July 1969, two days before man took his first steps on the moon on July 20, this 27-year-old white, single, female political worker was found dead, alone, under water, in an overturned. Gwens father, William, came to the US from Wales, along with his parents, in 1881, when he was a young boy. Powered by. Was it all for the cameras? According to the operative, Mary Jo was drunk, said she had a headache, got up and said she was going into one of the bedrooms to lie down. The operative says the night of the accident Kennedy and some of his buddies were all drunk and drove to a party on the Island. I was exhausted and in a state of shockWhen I fully realized what had happened this morning, I immediately contacted the police.'. The Kopechnes said their daughter, a graduate of parochial schools, once considered becoming a nun. He later told the inquest that he called her name several times from the shore and tried to swim down to reach her seven or eight times. Today would have been Mary Jo Kopechne's 80th birthday. Kopechne was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,[3] although she is sometimes described as being from nearby Forty Fort, Pennsylvania. He received a two-month suspended sentence. After they left, Bobby reappeared out of the brush. 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The comments below have not been moderated. I was unsuccessful in the attempt.. The private investigator, who agreed to speak to The ENQUIRER only on the condition of anonymity, said she was terrified to break her silence for fear Teds hatchet men would target her, as they had Mary Jo. Kennedy said that he tried to free Kopechne from the car and that he returned to the party on Chappaquiddick to get help. ', And an elderly woman stood in the crowd holding a red, white, and blue sign that read: 'KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT, 1972.'. We've been asked not to use the CIA person's name, but he worked for the agency for decades. Today, the handling of the Chappaquiddick case is still viewed as a Kennedy cover-up. It stars Jason Clarke (left) as Ted Kennedy and Kate Mara (right) as Kopechne, The upcoming film, which is called 'Chappaquiddick', is opening in theaters across the country on Friday. "[11], Kopechne and the Chappaquiddick incident are referenced in the 2019 series For All Mankind, which depicts an alternate history where Kennedy cancels his Chappaquiddick party after Soviets land on the moon before the U.S., thus avoiding Kopechne's death; Kennedy goes on to win the 1972 Presidential election and is accused of having an extramarital affair with Kopechne, who is working as a White House aide. EXCLUSIVE: The real story of how Mary Jo Kopechne was a victim of the Kennedys TWICE: Secretary killed at Chappaquiddick had been yet another target of RFK's insatiable sexual appetite before his. Kennedy urged Gargan and Markham not to tell the other partygoers about the accident. CUNNING cad Ted Kennedy hid an incredible secret about the night he drove Mary Jo Kopechne off a bridge in Chappaquiddick she was pregnant with his child! [3] Kopechne was a loyal worker. [She] was the most drowned person Ive ever seen, he told the New York Times. In a speech given a week after the accident, he maintained that he was sober, and that there was no truth, no truth whatever to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct that have been leveled at my behavior and [Kopechnes] regarding that evening.. The story of the horrifying crash was the subject of the 2017 film Chappaquiddick. Kennedy said that he was able to swim free of the vehicle, but that Kopechne was not. I could have had her out of that car twenty-five minutes after I got the call. They went there because the politician's wife was at the party and Kennedy wanted to hook up with her. I felt strongly that if these girls were notified that an accident had taken place and Mary Jo had, in fact, drowned, that it would only be a matter of seconds before all of those girls, who were long and dear friends of Mary Jos, would go to the scene of the accident and enter the water with, I felt, a good chance that some serious mishap might have occurred to any one of them, he told author Leo Damore. [3] She joined the secretarial staff of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY), following his election in November 1964. 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The cause of death was listed as drowning. The European Union needs to work and trade with China on cleantech and push for a level playing field rather than seek to decouple from the world's second-largest economy, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday. Due to Kennedy and his friends never notifying authorities about the accident, Kopechne's body wasn't found for hours. Period,' her father said. [1], The Chappaquiddick incident and Kopechne's death became the topic of at least 15 non-fiction books, as well as a novella by Joyce Carol Oates. A Hickory Hill insider told me that Bobby often told Ethel which women to invite to parties. [19] McNichols lost his run, and Kopechne returned to Washington, D.C. By mid-1969, she had completed work for the eventually successful mayoral campaign of Thomas J. Whelan in Jersey City, New Jersey. The New York Times reports that Kennedy learned of the news around 9:30 a.m. [34][35], Legal ruling, but there was no autopsy. There must be something he could tell me that would lift this heavy burden from my heart.'. Learn more about her death. Powers was also there, but that fact was covered up, according to the source. Somebody is hiding something. Kopechne grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and attended Caldwell College for Women in New Jersey, where she met Kluge. [3][6][4] Kopechne was of part Polish heritage through her father. Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island in Cape Cod, leaving his companion, Mary Jo Kopechne, in the car to drown in 1969, Ted and his people denied there was anything romantic or sexual between him and Kopechne that fatal night, or at any other time, In a statement made to police hours after the late night July 18, 1969, incident, Ted Kennedy (pictured) claimed he was on his way to get the ferry back to Edgartown, was unfamiliar with the road, made a wrong turn and his car went off a narrow bridge, In January 1970, a secret inquest was held, the results of which were later released, and one key finding was that there was 'probable cause' that Kennedy had driven his car 'negligently and that such operation appears to have contributed' to Mary Jo's death. Pictured above, divers retrieve Kennedy's car after the crash, 'I attempted to open the door and the window of the car but have no recollection of how I got out of the car.' Mary Jo Kopechne ( / kopkni /; July 26, 1940 - July 18 or 19, 1969) was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Kopechne herself had worked on Robert Kennedys presidential campaign. On that night, she attended a party with other women who had worked for the Kennedy family. Joseph and Gwen Kopechne were devout Catholics who, at the time of Mary Jos birth, belonged to St. Vincents Polish Catholic Church in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. Kopechne Estate Mary Jo Kopechne, as a member of Bobby Kennedy's campaign staff. 'The Kennedys had the upper hand, and it's been that way ever since.'. She is satisfactory referred to as the first wife of Ted Kennedy, the longest-serving United States Senator. Ted was driving, and David Powers helped cover this up! dished the source. Mary Jo Kopechne's Story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident This song is an original composition. The wreck wasn't reported until the next morning, approximately nine to ten hours later. Vietnams President quits, blamed for ministers' 'violations', It was under his leadership as PM that graft scandals related to pandemic emerged. Published on March 29, 2018 09:16 AM For nearly five decades, little was known about Mary Jo Kopechne, the 28-year-old campaign worker for Robert F. Kennedy who tragically died when the. [4], In 2015, two cousins of Kopechne's in Pennsylvania self-published the book Our Mary Jo, which sought to emphasize the influence of her life, rather than discuss Kennedy or Chappaquiddick. She is buried at St. Vincents Cemetery on Larksville Mountain, making her the fifth generation of her family to be interred there. For a true-crime film about a well-documented incident, Chappaquiddick's ability to preserve ambiguity is remarkable in itself. This information suggests that Kopechne was one of the heaviest drinkers at the Lawrence Cottage that night. Carol Capik, another close friend, said that Mary Jo was also more active than others in Sodality, a school organization that promoted Christian charity. Im sure thats why the nuns liked her so much, she added. Senator, openly flirted with pretty blonde twenty-something Polly Bussell, who worked on scheduling in Bobby's Senate office, and who Kiker occasionally dated. 'Hell, you could see right through it,' said her husband. [9][14][15] She enthusiastically played on the Kennedy office softball team, playing catcher. GIGI WON'T TAKE LEO BRUSH-OFF LYING DOWN! Kennedy then rested on the bank for about 15 minutes before he returned to Lawrence Cottage, where the party was still going on. [29] The events surrounding Kopechne's death damaged Kennedy's reputation, and are regarded as a major reason why he was never able to mount a successful campaign for President of the United States and essentially chose not to pursue the office. The story of the horrifying crash was the subject of the 2017 film Chappaquiddick. She was a good student, working hard and maintaining good grades. At a minimum, there was kissing, and this was happening when she was working at Hickory Hill'. That said, the details around Kopecnhes death have led to subsequent investigations and speculation about the timeline of events that night. Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities until the car and Kopechne's body were discovered the next morning. Once, during March 1967, she stayed up all night at Kennedy's Hickory Hill home, to type a major speech against the Vietnam War, while the senator and his aides such as Ted Sorensen made last-minute changes to it. The little blue pill really is magic! So here was Polly all alone on her motorcycle. On 17th July, 1969, Kopechne joined several other women who had worked for the Kennedy family and attended a party at the Lawrence Cottage. 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