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Les Leland, foreman of the grand jury that looked into the death on Chappaquiddick of Mary Jo Kopechne, who died in Sen. Edward Kennedy's car after he drove it off a bridge in 1969, alleges in a new book and tells The Boston Globe what many people have assumed for years:
That pressure from the much feared and loved Kennedy family and its political retainers and other allies squashed the grand jury probe into the death, which probably also spelled the demise of Edward Kennedy's presidential ambitions.

I remember while working at the old Boston Record American at the time and hearing frequently that the fix was in, but that no one could do anything about it.

"It was all a coverup,'' he told The Globe.

Now Les Leland, in Left to Die, tells his story, including the numerous death threats he received as the grand jury naively tried to treat Senator Kennedy as any other suspect.

"It was all a coverup,'' he told The Globe.

 Tags  Edward Kennedy Left to Die Les Leland Mary Jo Kopechne

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Inspector Clouseau said:

Nobody in the right mind ever thought it was anything but a cover up...

Like the entire Kennedy myth I guess topped off by Patches Kennedy, the gift that keeps on giving..but to whom?

Link | October 12, 2009 3:16 PM
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Dave F. said:

Imagine what the consequences could have been if someone with the ethics of Teddy had won the Presidency?

Link | October 12, 2009 5:15 PM
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GW said:

Enough already- Kennedy is dead. Let him rest in peace.

Link | October 12, 2009 5:29 PM
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Rick M. said:

Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident, there was no 'fix' involved.
Drinking and driving was treated differently in the 60's, nothing like today.

Sounds like this book is an attempt by Mr. leland to MAKE A BUCK, now that Ted is dead and noone else in his family wants to challenge these unfounded allegations and bring back a very tired story.
Every rich family gets away things poorer people can't. Just look at teenage drinking in Barrington.

Looks like Whitcomb should have bought something by Al Franken, at least he could have had a good laugh.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/02/kennedy-memoir-talks-of-c_n_275903.html

Link | October 13, 2009 10:12 PM
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