The Bridge At Chappaquiddick
by Jack Olsen /
2017 / English / EPUB
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And on its surface, the Chappaquiddick Incident (as it has
infamously become known) was a simple but tragic traffic accident.
However, its political fallout caused it to become the most
speculated-upon car accident until Princess Diana's fatal ride,
some 28 years later: Was Kennedy drunk? Was he trying to conceal an
affair by deliberately killing Kopechne? Why did he wait for so
long before reporting the accident? And who else was involved?
Olsen tells the tale with as much detail as was made available to
him. Though there is apparently only a single living eye-witness to
the accident (Kennedy himself, who described having the "sensation
of drowning" on live television a week later), Olsen tracks down
the incongruous statements made by others who were indirectly
involved... and comes to a potential conclusion which would be
difficult to refute. There is no legal evidence of this conclusion,
of course, but his alternate explanation of events turns much of
the circumstantial evidence into a logic-of-sorts
And on its surface, the Chappaquiddick Incident (as it has
infamously become known) was a simple but tragic traffic accident.
However, its political fallout caused it to become the most
speculated-upon car accident until Princess Diana's fatal ride,
some 28 years later: Was Kennedy drunk? Was he trying to conceal an
affair by deliberately killing Kopechne? Why did he wait for so
long before reporting the accident? And who else was involved?
Olsen tells the tale with as much detail as was made available to
him. Though there is apparently only a single living eye-witness to
the accident (Kennedy himself, who described having the "sensation
of drowning" on live television a week later), Olsen tracks down
the incongruous statements made by others who were indirectly
involved... and comes to a potential conclusion which would be
difficult to refute. There is no legal evidence of this conclusion,
of course, but his alternate explanation of events turns much of
the circumstantial evidence into a logic-of-sorts