Perhaps speak with her family members - ask them if it was just an 'incident.'
That's impossible. Her parents (the beneficiaries of the Kennedy largesse) are dead.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
By your logic so should the Kopechnes.
The Kopechnes had their price. The Kennedy money bought their silence in 1969.
Who's worse Squiggle; a man who undoubtedly suffered a concusion and cannot account for several hours (so the Dukes County Inquest found) or parents who are so devoted to their daughter they'll take the money and keep still?
Kennedy was no saint. But the Kopechnes lived off their dead daughter until they died. THEY ought to be "ashamed of [themselves]". Mary Jo was a party girl who provided upper class "servicing" to better herself professionally. It's as simple as that.
Recall those were very different times when men were given a carte blanche to cheat on their wives and the wife (Joan Bennett Kennedy in this case) was expected to turn a blind eye to what she
knew was going on with all the Kennedy men during the 60s.
Ted's actions that night on Chappy were precisely what Mary Jos' were. They were going out to Dike Bridge to get laid. Robert had had Mary Jo just previously. I know that Island like the back of my hand. I've walked over that bridge easily fifty times. I know the few year 'round families on the Island and the family who runs the Chappy ferry from that Island across the channel to Edgartown. Their opinon of what happened is not yours. They lived the event. And their hands-on witnessing of the subsequent inquest has been the topic of many discussion among this writer and two of those families. I spent two years as a caretaker only a half a mile from the site of the tragedy.
You're willing to condemn out of hand a man for one action in his life while ignoring the betterment he's afforded countless known and unknown people and causes in his thirty-year career in the Senate.
YOU ought to be ashamed of yourself.