Mary Jo Kopechne, the young woman Ted Kennedy left to die in the car wreck, choosing instead to save his career.

Despite of the media’s attempt to emphasise that late Senator Edward Kennedy’s memoirs, to be published this month, also mention the lows of his life, and despite that Kennedy calls the Chappaquiddick incident “inexcusable”, the book will not shed any new light on the killing of the young woman, and apparently the late Senator didn’t offer an apology, let alone admit that he was drunk and that was the reason he didn’t report the accident.

While everyone suspects that Kennedy was drunk in the fateful night of 18th July, 1969, when he crashed his car in the Poucha Pond on Chappaquiddick island and left his brother Robert’s former aide, Mary Jo Kopechne, in the wreck to die, saving him and his political career, Kennedy didn’t have that much courage to actually say it in his memoirs, which were inevitably to be published after his death. Everyone suspects that he escaped the scene to wait until his blood alcohol level to reach the legal level, while he could have, instead of saving his career, saved the life of a young woman – which is the only reasonable explanation to why he left in the first place. But even in death the late Senator decided not to come clean.

The New York Times says that Kennedy called his behaviour “inexcusable” and said that the events might have shortened the life of his father, Joseph P Kennedy. But the Times also admits that the account by Kennedy, who died on 25th Aug at age 77, adds little to what is already known about the accident and its aftermath.

Instead, Kennedy claims that he was “dazed, afraid and panicked” in the minutes and hours after he drove off a bridge, the NYTimes says. He admits in the memoir, however, that he had “made terrible decisions” at Chappaquiddick.

So – nothing new. No remorse, no regret, no apology. And no coming clean.

Ted Kennedy might have been a great legislator, “lion of the Senate” or something, but as a human being he was a true arsehole till the day he died.

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