I knew he had to go the hospital the other day for seizures or something to the effect that I had heard on the news. But now it has been confirmed to why he has had the seizures. He has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Senator Kennedy is the 2nd longest serving senator and his term will end in 2012. More of the news at Yahoo
Im a huge kennedy fan of all 3, this is really sad I will pray for a miracle God bless him and his family
Oh god he's a gonna be deceased soon then... He seemed like a genuine guy and there's not many of those in American politics.
For the record, this "genuine guy" murdered a young women, left her dead for 3 days before calling the authorities, and never served a single day for her death... That's a real genuine guy if I've ever seen one.
Did he murder her....or was this the result of an accident? Did he avoid the authorities for several days and avoid serving time? yup. It happened long ago. People make mistakes in life all the time. Time cures some or all of those mistakes. A mistake concerning the life of a person...is way beyond anything with which I am familiar on a personal level or with regard to anyone I know. I'm very sorry for him and for his family and saddened by this news.
For those interested.. If you were involved in an accident where a person traveling with you was killed and you did not bother to tell anyone about it for 3 days, what would you call that?
It wasn't several or three days... the body was found the next morning, but it was a weird event.... I reckon he was pissed... driving while drunk...
Generally, homicide or manslaughter. She very well may have been alive during the time it took for him to notify the authorities. She did not die on impact. She drowned. Its kinda interesting how Kennedy himself wrote a check for over $90,000.00 to her family after the incident, amazingly after receiving the check they decided to refuse an autopsy. Either way, it will be nice to have one less loud mouth democrat in congress. Especially one that has been there almost 50 years.. eek...
"According to Gargan and Markham, they then returned to the cottage and told the women nothing, at Kennedy's request.[2] According to Gargan and Markam's testimony, they assumed that Kennedy was going to inform the authorities once he got back to Edgartown, and thus did not do so themselves.[2] Back at his hotel, Kennedy complained at 2:55 am to the hotel owner that he had been awoken by a noisy party.[2] By 7:30 am the next morning he was talking "casually" to the winner of the previous day's sailing race, with no indication that anything was amiss.[2] At 8 a.m., Gargan and Markham joined Kennedy at his hotel where they had a "heated conversation", even though the ferry operator did not see them take the ferry to get to Edgartown.[2] The three men subsequently crossed back to Chappaquidick Island on the ferry, where Kennedy made a series of phone calls from a payphone by the crossing to his friends for advice; he again did not report the accident to authorities.[2] Earlier that morning, two fishermen saw the overturned car in the water and called the police.[1] A diver was sent down and discovered Kopechne's body.[1] The diver, John Farrar, later testified at the inquest that Kopechne's body was pressed up in the car in the spot where an air bubble would have formed. He interpreted this to mean that Kopechne had survived for a while after the initial accident in the air bubble, and concluded that “ Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim's side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.[3] †Police checked the car's license plate and saw that it was registered to Kennedy.[1] When Kennedy, still at the pay phone by the ferry crossing, saw that the body had been discovered, he crossed back to Edgartown and went to the police station: Gargan simultaneously went to the hotel where the Boiler Room Girls were staying to inform them about the incident.[2] Kennedy discussed the accident with several people, including his lawyer and Kopechne's parents, before discussing it with the police the next morning." From Wiki...
This is sad news. I wish the Senator and his family peace through this difficult process, as he won't be alive very much longer. Reading Mia's comments, timely enough, I am reading an excellent article in the current New Yorker, entitled "The Fall of Conservatism: Have the Republicans Run Out of Ideas?" I have felt this for some time. The line of Edmund Burke is dead, and what has replaced it is a mean-spirited, venal, polarizing and shortsighted crew, whose only truth seems to be encapsulated by Cheney's apparent directive, hours after Bush got the electoral nod by the Supreme Court's decision, 2000: The current crew supped on some spiritual help; for example, as early in 1971, a Buchanan memo to his then boss, Nixon, entitled "Dividing The Democrats," Buchanan laid out a machiavellian plan to play dirty, across the board, in seeking to divide the country and earn the rewards of electoral victory off the smoldering rubble of the polity that was left. I write this as it's been on my mind for some time. Kennedy's death is no time for the kind of giddiness displayed by Mia, and perhaps felt by others, on this thread. This kind of craven cynicism has for too long marked my country, and for too long has sullied America's best ideals. I, for one, applaud only the death of false conservatism, not the Senator's imminent end. Peace to him, his family and his friends.