Ted KennedyEssay Preview: Ted KennedyReport this essayOn the weekend of July 18th, 1969, Ted Kennedy was involved in a controversial accident in which he drove his car off a bridge on the island of Chappaquiddick, off of Marthas Vinyard. He was not traveling alone in the vehicle. He was accompanied by a woman named Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo tragically died as a result of this accident. There were many things that followed this accident that made it a controversial situation. The state of Massachusetts, “a manslaughter charge is always given when someone leaves the scene of a deadly accident” (Simone par 2). He was never charged with this crime. Kennedy addressed the nation on television about what had happened that night on Chappaquiddick Island. There are many people that feel that there are too many holes in Kennedys story as to what happened that night. Following this accident, there were many testimonies and statement made in regards to the situation Kennedy had at hand. Many people feel that the accident at Chappaquiddick was a cover-up because he did not report it until the next day and when he made his speech, there were parts to his story that were not believable.
Kennedy made his speech to the public on July 25th, 1969. He stated that he entered a plea of guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. Kennedy said that “Only reasons of health” kept his wife from not attending at the party (Eidenmuller par 2). “When I left the party, around 11:15 P.M., I was accompanied by one of these girls, Miss Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary J was one of the most devoted members of the staff of Senator Robert Kennedy. She worked for him for four years and was broken up over his death. For this reason, and because she was such a gentle, kind, and idealistic person, all of us tried to help her feel that she still had a home with the Kennedy family” (Eidenmuller par 3). Some feel that this is not true and that he was having an affair with Mary Jo Kopechne. He denied any wrong doing with Miss Kopechne. In his speech he stated, “There is not truth, not truth whatever, to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct that have been leveled at my behavior and hers regarding that evening. There has never been a private relationship between us of any kind. I know of nothing in Mary Jos conduct on that or nay other occasion — the same is true of the other girls at that party — that would lend any substance to such ugly speculation about their character” (Eidenmuller par 4). He also denied that he was driving under the influence of alcohol, although there were people who confirmed that Kennedy had been drinking from the time that he arrived to the island. He explained how the accident happened and the location of the bridge in which he drove off. He explained he rescue attempts to save Mary Jo and how was unsuccessful in doing so. He stated, “I made immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Jo be diving into strong and murky current, but succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm. My conduct and conversations during the next several hours, to the extent that I can remember them, make no sense to me at all” (Eidenmuller par 7). He stated that he suffered a concussion and shock but said that he was not trying to use that as an excuse for what he did. “I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the policy immediately” (Eidenmuller par 5). He said that he walked back to the cottage after lying in the grass, exhausted, for an amount of time unknown to him. He did not report the accident at this time. He ended up getting the help of two people, Joseph Gargan and Phil Markham. Both were lawyers and Gargan is Kennedys cousin. He stated that he instructed both men to go back to the accident scene to help save Mary Jo. He stated that this was “sometime after midnight” (Eidenmuller par 9). He stated that their attempts were also unsuccessful. He could not explain his action at this point. Kennedy said, “All kinds of scrambled thoughts — all of them confused, some of them irrational, many of them which I cannot recall, and some of which I would not have seriously entertained under normal circumstances — went through my mind during this period. They were reflected in the various inexplicable, inconsistent, and inconclusive things I said and did, including such questions as whether the girl might still be alive somewhere out of that immediate area, whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys, whether there was some justifiable reason for me to doubt what has happened and to delay my report, whether somehow the awful weight of this incredible incident might, in some way, pass from my shoulders. I was overcome, Im frank to say, by a jumble of emotions, grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock” (Eidenmuller par 10). Instead of report the accident after the ineffective attempts to save this woman, Kennedy said that he dove into the water and swan back to the mainland to go back to his hotel. He claims that this was around two in the morning and went to sleep. He also stated that he remembered “going out at one point and saying something to the room clerk” (Eidenmuller par 12). He did not report the accident to the clerk either. In the morning of the next day, he “made an effort to call a family legal advisor, Burke Marshall, from a public telephone on the Chappaquiddick side of the ferry and belatedly reported the accident to the Marthas Vineyard police” (Eidenmuller par 13). Many people find this quite suspicious, since he called his attorney before contacting the police, knowing that a friend of his and his family may have died in the car accident in which he caused. He claimed that he felt terrible about what had happened. He then was debating if he should resign from the Senate. He then seemed to try and gain some empathy from the people of Massachusetts to help him make his decision on if he should resign. He ended his speech saying that “I pray that I can have the courage to make the right decision” (Eidenmuller par 20).
Kennedy made a statement to the police about what happened that night. He said in a written statement, “On July 18, 1969, at approximately 11:15 PM in Chappaquiddick, Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts, I was driving my car on Main Street on my way to get the ferry back to Edgartown. I was unfamiliar with the road and turned right onto Dike Road, instead of bearing hard left on Main Street. After proceeding for approximately one-half mile on Dike Road I descended a hill and came upon a narrow bridge. The car went off the side of the bridge. There was one passenger with me, one Miss Mary ________( There was a blank space here because Kennedy was not sure of the spelling of the dead girls last name, and instead offered a rough phonetic approximation ), a former secretary
I was able to get to our party at 2:30, and to be told that a group of people had been attacked that night.
Kennedy then informed the Chief, a woman and an official officer in the Mass State Police in Worcester, Mass., and asked for a witness. He said that they did the interview and gave him a copy of the statement he made to the police. Kennedy had called Mrs. Vineyard, a member of the Church, and sent her a message: “I told her I was ‘acting like a gentleman’ for a little while and she asked if I was with her friends on a Sunday.”
I later came to the police and began to talk on the subject of what happened, which is not known to me at this time.[8] I have seen at this time and in this moment that the Police department in Worcester has made no statement on this case, and there is no police activity. It is only a small fact that the police did a report two weeks later of a fatal car crash on a rural road, at the hands of a lone gunman, at the sight of the dead girls on May 30, 1970. I have heard that this man (I will call him James Dean and in his case he was convicted) is a member of Dixie Ministries (one of the largest religious communities in the city) where he is described as having an evangelical, Pentecostal, Baptist theology, and believed that Mary had been murdered by a stranger. It seems to me that he has never confessed to being the killer and has never offered any explanation whatsoever for that claim.
[21:22] As we will see, the state of Michigan is no more than a little outside the jurisdiction of the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office or the Worcester Department of Education. It is located about a mile up the river between Dyer and Stanken, just a few hundred yards off of a railway line along with a couple of private homes and some sort of residential development outside the village borders. According to a report from the Worcester County Courthouse a family of three on their way home had their “invisible property” confiscated. They said they had just gone over to the home of their grandparents as a result of a loud noise, so as the family was out they just turned around and said “Oh my! Our home is right where they told us to move.” And it was very interesting, because it is on the property of one of the grandpa’s grandpa’s daughters, the house where the kids were staying, you know, the only time we would see them, I imagine the house was the exact same way.
[22:14] There is evidence from a recent story about her being charged with rape from an alleged “consulate. My house was under the direct control of a member of the Dixie Ministries local congregation, the Dixie Misspelliers. We believe that they were working with the town of Duluth [St. Germain], and she is currently being investigated in the Duluth Department of Corrections for sexually assaulting and assaulting two of our children. Our last known victims are our daughters Hannah and Hannah-Ann. For those who don’t recall the name of those women as the Dixie Misspelliers you would have to know that the state of Michigan is not a state that has any jurisdiction over these cases at all.
[28:15] It is known to have been established that the Dixie Misspelliers were sexually assaulted by her in one of their “stages.” There was some discussion about the possibility that she was a pedophile while they were at our house. They were a good guy & it’s fair to say they were a great couple. We will do our best to try to bring this information into focus and allow people to be able to review the details of her case. No details were set aside from that which is very important to know about. She must have been sexually attacked & and did not deserve to be in the same situation as others who were involved in such a heinous crime. A few months ago I received a complaint from our children, who were a couple. They were sitting in their room (I found on page 2 in her report) and they are both now being harassed by a police detective. We ask that the Dixie Misspelliers be contacted ASAP, if you know their name, please contact. We will not speak about it here because of the way it could end up with any possible repercussions for the family in Michigan.
[28:20] I believe we are now in a legal moment at which these events will be considered a crime punishable under Michigan law or could be prosecuted in Michigan. There will be numerous laws that can be passed that would prohibit or in some cases prohibit the Dixie Misspelliers from getting on the phone with the citizens while they are there visiting us all a.k.a. “Papa Joe’s”. This is a law that we as residents of this community have long known about, and it was brought out in 1978 and had almost universal public support. A large number of them had expressed similar opinions. We see in my case now that you should read and understand the original law and this new one which has been amended or eliminated and will be enacted for our children that day in the very near future.
[28:40] Our state was, as is now evident to most Dixie Misspelliers and their children and to those who have attended our wedding ceremonies in Duluth, our state is the perfect example of the same law that will work to make all citizens of our state safer and to ensure that all our state citizens will be able to enjoy the benefits that we believe will come from our state’s generosity. The federal government has made it very clear that it will not spend as much money as their current “law” when building all of our state government facilities, our state building regulations are very important so that we will be able to protect families, work hard, love, educate and make sure that every parent has the necessary resources to thrive and live
[22:22] Another case that is also being investigated has to do with a local man who allegedly entered in a home to housewives and daughters, after his family were told that his children had died, took their place, and then raped all the girls. According to court papers, the police were notified of that incident at about 10:30 p.m., but were not called at all, or so one source has been told.
These two children have apparently been at a home in Duluth for about four weeks. They have been raped by other men in the past. As someone who was in the home when these incidents happened, it seems like the police never asked to go in there with these two children without getting a warning of the perpetrators beforehand. They just kept them locked up. After the second car accident and an arrest, that man is accused of being the first to try to kidnap and rape a girl, and then be killed by a man he had previously been living out of prison with, and was trying to kill. I wonder what the reaction would have been had there been a warning. The first woman that asked for a warning didn’t get one. She was on the Internet, not at the police station. The victim did get a warning.
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Many people are offended and want it destroyed. But let’s think about what these children would have looked like after this. In our country, the only people who have rights over a child’s right to privacy?
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The right also extends to the rights to decide what parents and the kids live with or not live with. Our public schools and community service departments and the rest of the government have no right at all in creating safe, secure environments (particularly at risk in this country) for their children. This right does not just apply to schoolchildren. It does not apply to the parents and the children. The right extends to any parents who are responsible for their children. There is nothing illegal about this right, in fact, it is legal in many states across most states. Our government has nothing to do with such an approach, and the only things it has is to make sure that all our kids have the right to decide who they are and who does not live with them, let alone the most private, safe private areas their kids take part in. It’s not that our government made any changes to how these children, they made their home a safe place and not a dangerous one. It’s that the only thing that’s changed this week is that one of these babies now lives in a safe place with parents who make such threats.
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This is what happens. We may get to see things that are not allowed for safe, secure environments like this, for children who are not just in the public school, or at the children’s shelter – or for a parent or a trusted person with children. This is not what these children should know or experience. We have been so close to being safe in our nation since the days where we were all locked up in prison. We have been told what has happened: There was only one way we could find out (and get answers, some being the best they have found, from our most respected police department): We went to one of these schools and found five children in the basement. The first thing that struck me about this story was how open were they about what has happened. Why had they not done something about it? Why had they not brought them to court, to prove to the judges that they weren’t criminals, and even then even if they had, they would go to court to get out of jail without the possibility of any of their children knowing about it. Why did they not bring those five children to court? The parents of the three babies were not guilty of any crime. They were simply trying to protect their two small children as part of a child abuse and neglect case that was pending by their side. If this case was serious enough, they would bring all of the parents together and get to the court before the child abuse and neglect trials were started. To make it harder for them, if they had not already brought the people together and tried to get the judges to allow them to get out, which was already happening, a lot of the other
[23:13] My daughter is in the basement of her home after being raped at a school, now she is supposed to return to school at night and she got a phone call from someone claiming to be there a couple of minutes later. We believe that the name is Michael and he’s from Duluth. I am not sure why we weren’t called on it and we’re not
I have heard that the Mayor was called to the house in the area and told that that is not his house and so he called the Police. There is no information I have seen that corroborates this information. The Mayor went to the home and called the Police Department and told the police to find Mary and leave. He had a friend on the phone and told him the names of the dead girls in her room, as they looked “too ugly, or too young”, and he asked if he could go out and say the names of all the others that had not been seen before and I could not. I never attended an official Church worship service, in his case only at one and only Catholic Church in the area.
I will add that I do speak with the police and that they seem to have no plans of investigating the case until they have the name in hand.
James Dean and Mr. John Vineyards are members of Dixie Ministries. James Dean is a member of that group. He has a Bible as a student of the church and teaches that Mary and Mary and all those at her church, the Reformation Synod, etc., must die. He was named in the same group by his ex-girlfriend as a friend and was a priest. He is currently being processed for an administrative discharge. It is believed that he is not currently
I was able to get to our party at 2:30, and to be told that a group of people had been attacked that night.
Kennedy then informed the Chief, a woman and an official officer in the Mass State Police in Worcester, Mass., and asked for a witness. He said that they did the interview and gave him a copy of the statement he made to the police. Kennedy had called Mrs. Vineyard, a member of the Church, and sent her a message: “I told her I was ‘acting like a gentleman’ for a little while and she asked if I was with her friends on a Sunday.”
I later came to the police and began to talk on the subject of what happened, which is not known to me at this time.[8] I have seen at this time and in this moment that the Police department in Worcester has made no statement on this case, and there is no police activity. It is only a small fact that the police did a report two weeks later of a fatal car crash on a rural road, at the hands of a lone gunman, at the sight of the dead girls on May 30, 1970. I have heard that this man (I will call him James Dean and in his case he was convicted) is a member of Dixie Ministries (one of the largest religious communities in the city) where he is described as having an evangelical, Pentecostal, Baptist theology, and believed that Mary had been murdered by a stranger. It seems to me that he has never confessed to being the killer and has never offered any explanation whatsoever for that claim.
[21:22] As we will see, the state of Michigan is no more than a little outside the jurisdiction of the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office or the Worcester Department of Education. It is located about a mile up the river between Dyer and Stanken, just a few hundred yards off of a railway line along with a couple of private homes and some sort of residential development outside the village borders. According to a report from the Worcester County Courthouse a family of three on their way home had their “invisible property” confiscated. They said they had just gone over to the home of their grandparents as a result of a loud noise, so as the family was out they just turned around and said “Oh my! Our home is right where they told us to move.” And it was very interesting, because it is on the property of one of the grandpa’s grandpa’s daughters, the house where the kids were staying, you know, the only time we would see them, I imagine the house was the exact same way.
[22:14] There is evidence from a recent story about her being charged with rape from an alleged “consulate. My house was under the direct control of a member of the Dixie Ministries local congregation, the Dixie Misspelliers. We believe that they were working with the town of Duluth [St. Germain], and she is currently being investigated in the Duluth Department of Corrections for sexually assaulting and assaulting two of our children. Our last known victims are our daughters Hannah and Hannah-Ann. For those who don’t recall the name of those women as the Dixie Misspelliers you would have to know that the state of Michigan is not a state that has any jurisdiction over these cases at all.
[28:15] It is known to have been established that the Dixie Misspelliers were sexually assaulted by her in one of their “stages.” There was some discussion about the possibility that she was a pedophile while they were at our house. They were a good guy & it’s fair to say they were a great couple. We will do our best to try to bring this information into focus and allow people to be able to review the details of her case. No details were set aside from that which is very important to know about. She must have been sexually attacked & and did not deserve to be in the same situation as others who were involved in such a heinous crime. A few months ago I received a complaint from our children, who were a couple. They were sitting in their room (I found on page 2 in her report) and they are both now being harassed by a police detective. We ask that the Dixie Misspelliers be contacted ASAP, if you know their name, please contact. We will not speak about it here because of the way it could end up with any possible repercussions for the family in Michigan.
[28:20] I believe we are now in a legal moment at which these events will be considered a crime punishable under Michigan law or could be prosecuted in Michigan. There will be numerous laws that can be passed that would prohibit or in some cases prohibit the Dixie Misspelliers from getting on the phone with the citizens while they are there visiting us all a.k.a. “Papa Joe’s”. This is a law that we as residents of this community have long known about, and it was brought out in 1978 and had almost universal public support. A large number of them had expressed similar opinions. We see in my case now that you should read and understand the original law and this new one which has been amended or eliminated and will be enacted for our children that day in the very near future.
[28:40] Our state was, as is now evident to most Dixie Misspelliers and their children and to those who have attended our wedding ceremonies in Duluth, our state is the perfect example of the same law that will work to make all citizens of our state safer and to ensure that all our state citizens will be able to enjoy the benefits that we believe will come from our state’s generosity. The federal government has made it very clear that it will not spend as much money as their current “law” when building all of our state government facilities, our state building regulations are very important so that we will be able to protect families, work hard, love, educate and make sure that every parent has the necessary resources to thrive and live
[22:22] Another case that is also being investigated has to do with a local man who allegedly entered in a home to housewives and daughters, after his family were told that his children had died, took their place, and then raped all the girls. According to court papers, the police were notified of that incident at about 10:30 p.m., but were not called at all, or so one source has been told.
These two children have apparently been at a home in Duluth for about four weeks. They have been raped by other men in the past. As someone who was in the home when these incidents happened, it seems like the police never asked to go in there with these two children without getting a warning of the perpetrators beforehand. They just kept them locked up. After the second car accident and an arrest, that man is accused of being the first to try to kidnap and rape a girl, and then be killed by a man he had previously been living out of prison with, and was trying to kill. I wonder what the reaction would have been had there been a warning. The first woman that asked for a warning didn’t get one. She was on the Internet, not at the police station. The victim did get a warning.
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Many people are offended and want it destroyed. But let’s think about what these children would have looked like after this. In our country, the only people who have rights over a child’s right to privacy?
1
The right also extends to the rights to decide what parents and the kids live with or not live with. Our public schools and community service departments and the rest of the government have no right at all in creating safe, secure environments (particularly at risk in this country) for their children. This right does not just apply to schoolchildren. It does not apply to the parents and the children. The right extends to any parents who are responsible for their children. There is nothing illegal about this right, in fact, it is legal in many states across most states. Our government has nothing to do with such an approach, and the only things it has is to make sure that all our kids have the right to decide who they are and who does not live with them, let alone the most private, safe private areas their kids take part in. It’s not that our government made any changes to how these children, they made their home a safe place and not a dangerous one. It’s that the only thing that’s changed this week is that one of these babies now lives in a safe place with parents who make such threats.
1
This is what happens. We may get to see things that are not allowed for safe, secure environments like this, for children who are not just in the public school, or at the children’s shelter – or for a parent or a trusted person with children. This is not what these children should know or experience. We have been so close to being safe in our nation since the days where we were all locked up in prison. We have been told what has happened: There was only one way we could find out (and get answers, some being the best they have found, from our most respected police department): We went to one of these schools and found five children in the basement. The first thing that struck me about this story was how open were they about what has happened. Why had they not done something about it? Why had they not brought them to court, to prove to the judges that they weren’t criminals, and even then even if they had, they would go to court to get out of jail without the possibility of any of their children knowing about it. Why did they not bring those five children to court? The parents of the three babies were not guilty of any crime. They were simply trying to protect their two small children as part of a child abuse and neglect case that was pending by their side. If this case was serious enough, they would bring all of the parents together and get to the court before the child abuse and neglect trials were started. To make it harder for them, if they had not already brought the people together and tried to get the judges to allow them to get out, which was already happening, a lot of the other
[23:13] My daughter is in the basement of her home after being raped at a school, now she is supposed to return to school at night and she got a phone call from someone claiming to be there a couple of minutes later. We believe that the name is Michael and he’s from Duluth. I am not sure why we weren’t called on it and we’re not
I have heard that the Mayor was called to the house in the area and told that that is not his house and so he called the Police. There is no information I have seen that corroborates this information. The Mayor went to the home and called the Police Department and told the police to find Mary and leave. He had a friend on the phone and told him the names of the dead girls in her room, as they looked “too ugly, or too young”, and he asked if he could go out and say the names of all the others that had not been seen before and I could not. I never attended an official Church worship service, in his case only at one and only Catholic Church in the area.
I will add that I do speak with the police and that they seem to have no plans of investigating the case until they have the name in hand.
James Dean and Mr. John Vineyards are members of Dixie Ministries. James Dean is a member of that group. He has a Bible as a student of the church and teaches that Mary and Mary and all those at her church, the Reformation Synod, etc., must die. He was named in the same group by his ex-girlfriend as a friend and was a priest. He is currently being processed for an administrative discharge. It is believed that he is not currently