Peter Kanellis
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250 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 26 May
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I think that there was serious accountability for errors in judgment that were almost certainly motivated by concern for the image and politics and how is this all going to look.
I think that it adds up to a pretty powerful indictment of Ted Kennedy's behavior.
The line that might be drawn, though, is when people say, you know, did he intentionally sacrifice this woman or sacrifice her life?
Did he, you know, he cared more for his own political well-being than he did for her life?
I think that the evidence suggests that he believed that she was not savable at any of these later points.
You know, he did dive in to try to save her and rescue her in the car.
That is credible because he's such a good swimmer and he was somebody who spent his whole life on the ocean that it wouldn't have been some extraordinary effort of his to try to, you know, get down in the car and save her.
And even if you're somebody who believes in the craven political motivation was always first and foremost in his mind.
Of course, his motivation would have been to do anything to save her because once she was saved, there would be no incident.
It only became a scandal and a crisis because she died.
So he had every incentive to try to save her.
Then he ran back to the cottage, which was a pretty long track away.
to try to get Markham and Gargan to come back and help him to make a second run of attempts to save Mary Jo Kopechny.
They did try.
They didn't succeed.
And it was then that the sort of political cover-up slash shenanigans slash manipulations, I think, started to occur.
Oh, I mean, I think that that is almost beyond dispute that the local officials in Edgartown deferred to the Kennedys.
And, you know, a lot of their concerns were sort of how to please the Kennedys rather than how to properly investigate this death or concern for the Kopechny family.
You know, at a certain point, various Kennedy aides and hangers-on and other figures, you know, started dictating terms to the local officials.
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