“Inexcusable”... Ted Kennedy In His Own Words
From the NYT & FoxNews…
NEW YORK — In a posthumous memoir, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy writes of fear and remorse surrounding the fateful events on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, when his car accident left a woman dead, and says he accepted the finding that a lone gunman assassinated his brother President John F. Kennedy.
The memoir, “True Compass,” is to be published Sept. 14 by Twelve, a division of the Hachette book group. The 532-page book was obtained early by The New York Times.
In it, Kennedy says his actions on Chappaquiddick on July 18, 1969, were “inexcusable.” He says he was afraid and “made terrible decisions” and had to live with the guilt for more than four decades.
Kennedy drove off a bridge into a pond. He swam to safety, leaving Mary Jo Kopechne in the car.
A rescue-diver on the scene would later testify that Miss Kopechne survived in a air-pocket for nearly an hour before asphyxiating from lack of oxygen while Kennedy slept off a drunk.
