{"product_id":"death-at-chappaquiddick-book-richard-l-tedrow-9780916054281","title":"Death at Chappaquiddick","description":"\u003cp\u003eI still feel a lot of bitterness. It's been a long time, but to me it was just yesterday. I'll never forgive him. I don't believe the truth has been told. I don't know the truth. None of us knows the truth. It's still a mystery . . . . There was just too\u003cbr\u003emuch deception, too much double talk and cover up.\u003cbr\u003e-- Joseph Kopechne, Women's News Service\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis then is the real horror of the case. Mary Jo in the\u003cbr\u003ebottom of that upside-down car, wedged in, clawing, clutching and straining for\u003cbr\u003eair and for life in the total blackness at the bottom of Poucha Pond with water\u003cbr\u003ecreeping higher and higher. Completely terrified, she waited for help from\u003cbr\u003eSenator Kennedy - who was on the phone seeking help not for Mary Jo, but for\u003cbr\u003eSenator Kennedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Death at Chappaquiddick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn July 19, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy drove off a bridge on\u003cbr\u003eChappaquiddick Island, leading to the death of his young female companion and, \u003cbr\u003ethe authors contend, an extensive cover up to protect Kennedy's political\u003cbr\u003eambitions.\u003cbr\u003eThe Tedrow recreates the unexplained events of that fateful night, examine\u003cbr\u003ethe self-admitted panic of a U. S. senator, and point by point puncture\u003cbr\u003eKennedy's sieve-like account of the tragedy.\u003cbr\u003eThe authors' exhaustive investigation produces solid answers to curious\u003cbr\u003equestions. Most damning of all, they present evidence that Kennedy fled the\u003cbr\u003escene in panic, then spent hours telephoning cronies seeking political\u003cbr\u003eprotection while a helpless Mary Jo Kapechne slowly suffocated in a pocket of\u003cbr\u003eair inside the submerged auto.\u003cbr\u003eRichard L. Tedrow served for 17 years as Chief Commissioner of the U. S.\u003cbr\u003eCourt of Military Appeal and is the author of the standard reference for U. S.\u003cbr\u003emilitary court martials. Thomas Tedrow is a freelance writer in Houston, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372022010129,"sku":"CIN0916054284A","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50372023451921,"sku":"CIN0916054284G","price":4.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0916054284.jpg?v=1750947730","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/death-at-chappaquiddick-book-richard-l-tedrow-9780916054281","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}