I was getting a blood test yesterday morning and the TV was on in the Lab's waiting area...turned to a news broadcast from a local station I would never listen to voluntarily, at home. (Someone would have to break in and make me watch that station for its news by putting a gun to my back...and even THEN I might choose to be shot, Lol!!) Anyway, the commentator started talking about this story, and how Saoirse's family, the Kennedys, have had so many TRAGEDIES over the years, etc.
The phrase "The Kennedy Curse" came up again, of course.
Oh, how predictable.
The whole report morphed into another "Kennedy Curse" piece, as opposed to just telling us about the tragic death of the young lady who was BORN a Kennedy, you see.
JFK's and RFK's assassinations WERE tragedies, of course...I don't dispute that. They were NATIONAL tragedies, in fact. And yes, because Saoirse was related to Bobby, I could see how JFK and RFK come into the current "picture."
But when the 20th anniversary of JFK Jr.'s death on the 16th of last month was brought up on that broadcast, I fully expected the 50th anniversary (July 19th) of TEDDY'S incident at Chappaquiddick to be brought up, also.
.......It wasn't.
Not in the news broadcast *I* saw!!
The recitation of Tragedies stopped right THERE, at JFK, RFK and JFK, Jr. which is "funny," because didn't Teddy himself describe what happened as a....tragedy, 50 years ago?? Didn't HE reference "The unspeakable Kennedy Curse" in July of '69 just as freely as New Englanders used to speak of "The Curse of the Bambino" before the Red Sox won the World Series, in 2004?? True, Teddy didn't DIE like the other Kennedys I mentioned did...at least not from Chappaquiddick. I hear that. But here's the REAL reason, in my opinion, that the Liberal news I watched, and the Liberal New York Times, left TEDDY out of their Histories of Kennedy Tragedies yesterday.
Mary Jo Kopechne (pictured above) is the reason.
SHE died at Chappaquiddick.
She wasn't a KENNEDY, but her death was tragic, then AND even now. In my opinion, whenever the so-called "Kennedy Curse" is mentioned SHE should be mentioned because SHE died due to her relationship to Bobby (she was working on his Presidential campaign) AND Teddy (she was going to work on HIS campaign, in '72, before she got killed in his car.)
In my opinion, Teddy AND Mary Jo should have been mentioned along with the others in that broadcast I saw...but that's just me, I guess.
See, Mary Jo is "only" just the 28 year old woman who drowned in Teddy's car 50 years ago, under suspicious circumstances. HER name has no "Mojo"....."Kopechne" doesn't have the MAGIC of "Kennedy," after all. But even if her name lacks magic, her death, as part of the "Kennedy Curse," was tragic. And if Teddy were included in the Histories list, considering that HE survived Chappaquiddick, one might ask why he's the only one ON that Histories list who DID survive. Young people the age of SAOIRSE might google it and learn this: that many say Teddy didn't die because he left Mary Jo to suffocate, trapped in that submerged car, rather than risk his life to try and save her.
"No Mojo" Mary Jo WASN'T saved.........and deliberately isn't remembered, for the most part.
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