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since ted kennedy appeared on television to discuss the death of mary jo. even he called his behavior afterward indefensible. for disefn days, reporters, investigators, bereaved parents kennedy the only eyewitness to the accident to answer the key questions. why were kennedy and can a peck any driving to a deserted beach from the opposite direction from the fairy. why was mary jo submerged for nine hours the accident going unreported. >> jesse: ted kennedy was sidelined until he saw an opening during the carter presidency. >> i strongly supported jimmy carter in the last election. i hoped and expected that he would succeed as president. but, by last year, it became increasingly clear to me that things were out of control. and that america was losing ground at home and abroad. i knew that i could wait for the next four years but i believed that america cannot risk four more years of economic disorder,
kennedy operated his motor vehicle negligently on the way to the public has right of access in such operation can appears to have contributed to the death of mary jo. he was found. negligent. >> one of the things the judge pointed out he did not believe the story that they were going back into town because he left on - - she left her purse in the cabin that's not what you're doing when you're headed back to the hotel that doesn't fit in the story. >> also did not agree to the basic points of his stories. >> kennedy a w claimed he went f the bridge around 11:00 o'clock and made a mistake and turned it turns out he had been on the island
determination of the facts and the circumstances of mary jo. >> lawyers want the judge to set some ground rules for the inquest. >> they let the lead suspect go first there are so many questions. ♪ >> april 29th, 1974 months after the inquest of two mary jo 763 pages of testimony were released to the public as pouring over the material with judge over suing one - - overseeing the inquest. >> i find there is probable cause to believe that edward
uncovers from the cape cod times 20 years earlier. >> he sat down and revealed the story from his point of viewhe of course it contradicted the myth around kennedy in chappaquiddick at the time. >> critics would question if the interview actually took place fox news was granted access to hundreds of pages of research and interview notes for the book as the author's notes indicate the kennedy cousin told him in the immediate hours after the accident kennedy had proposed that he would make mary jo appear as the sole driver freeing the senator of any wrongdoing. >> there was a lot of speculation so whether that is true or to what extent we are not sure. >> the best-selling book claimsks that is a fresh approach to what happened that night calling from information those that were involved at the scandal but then there was
i'm in product development at comcast. we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. mary jo would have been 29 years old. her interest in politics and devotion to the kennedys took her far from the pennsylvania community where she is being buried today. >> there was a crowd of people outside and inside. i found joe and went over and hugged him. he wasn't really there. he was destroyed. this was his only child, his daughter and they had a wonderful relationship. i went to the casket and mary jo looked lovely, beautiful. she looked like she was sleeping. >> the small church was packed.
700 people. kennedy kennedy arrived with his wife joan, his neck visibly seen. >> the message of that neck brace was absolutely clear. there was two victims, mary jo and me. >> it was a stage prop is what it was. >> this is all part of an elaborate effort to basically erase the victim. >> for most people, remember the back story, this is the kennedys, there were two brothers assassinated, the story that there's some sort of kennedy curse had now entered the mythology. >> indeed this had the air of public speculative him. the celebrity politician was at the center of the growing scandal. after the funeral the media was
kennedy campaign. when i left the party around 11:15 p.m. i was accompanied by mary jo. >> initially he stuck to the timeline of the police report and attempted to knock down and you and knows and scandals. >> there is no proof whatsoever of the circulated suspicion of immoral conduct of my behavior and hers regarding that evening. a little over 1 mile away the credit i was driving on an unlit road over the bridge, the car overturned in a deep pond and immediately filled with water. i remember thinking the cold water rushed in around my head that i was going to face certain grounding. somehow i struggled and made immediate efforts to save mary
losing the daughter there inundated with the kennedy machine, trying to keep them on their side because they don't want to tip off. >> they were rather surrounded by people who were encouraging them to not have the exhumation. >> it was perceived in the press that they were protecting kennedy and they were protecting ted kennedy, they were protecting mary jo. >> in early september the ruling came down that no autopsy will be held. >> on the scene mean the semi could've never gone up that cemetery again had i known it had been disturbed. >> you feel now this ruling justifies the statement made by senator kennedy. >> what i feel our position has been vindicated and i feel the examination, it always did prove conclusive. >> it was not until years later
their daughters body and to leave her rest in peace. >> i received a call from the states attorney asking me if i would consult in the case and consider testifying and performing an examination autopsy on mary jo. >> having reviewed the case he testified with his assessment. >> had an examination been done the autopsy would still have come up with the same answers, rule out fractures and strength he and anything else, et cetera, all of that which would've been done and should've been done back in july could have still been done in late september. >> with the family emotionally fragile from the death of their daughter some argued they attempted to exert their influence. >> in addition to the tragedy of
their daughters body and to leave her rest in peace. >> i received a call from the states attorney asking me if i would consult in the case and consider testifying and performing an examination autopsy on mary jo. >> having reviewed the case he testified with his assessment. >> had an examination been done the autopsy would still have come up with the same answers, rule out fractures and strength he and anything else, et cetera, all of that which would've been done and should've been done back in july could have still been done in late september. >> with the family emotionally fragile from the death of their daughter some argued they attempted to exert their influence.