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Final Insurance
The origination of the case was the publication of Conspiracies, Cover-ups & Crimes by Jonathan Vankin (© 1996):
Suicides are also popular, as are one-car accidents. Kennedy haters have no
trouble envisioning a heavy-handed Kennedy-engineered conspiracy behind
Chappaquidick
and the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Other theorists take the same anomalous facts
- unusual dents in the car, time lapses in Ted Kennedy's memory - to mean that
Kennedy and Kopechne were victims: he drugged, she murdered. Chappaquick was
final insurance that a Kennedy brother would not be president.
The release of the so-called Pentagon Papers II during the first year of the the Obama Administration declassified a large number of CIA memos from the period 1969 - 1988. Fresh evidence of malfeasance emerged not only to link the Agency to Chappaquidick, but also to draw suspicious paralells between William Casey and Ted Kennedy's brain tumours. Shortly afterwards, the junior United States Senator from New York, Caroline
Kennedy - herself a law graduate from Columbia Law School - announced her
intention to pursue litigation on behalf of the Kennedy family. Another graduate
of Columbia, President Barack Obama signalled his commitment to limit Agency
activity to the terms of its 1947 Charter in line with the recommendations of
the Church Committee, Rockefeller Commission and Pike Committee.
Steve Payne Editor of Today in Alternate History, a Daily Updating Blog of Important Events In History That Never Occurred Today. Imagine what would be, if history had occurred a bit differently. Who says it didn't, somewhere? These fictional news items explore that possibility. Possibilities such as America becoming a Marxist superpower, aliens influencing human history in the 18th century and Teddy Roosevelt winning his 3rd term as president abound in this interesting fictional blog.
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