Mary Jo Kopechne, 68, is reported to be recovering nicely from brain surgery preformed at Duke University Medical center. Kopechne comes from a storied political family in America and has served ably has a US Senator from Massachusetts since 1962. Kopechne’s brilliant career was marked by a auto accident early in her career where a young relatively unknown secretary named Edward Kennedy drowned in suspicious circumstances in Chappaquiddick. Kopechne was at the wheel when the car she was driving went off a bridge and was submerged in shallow water. Mary Jo Kopechne managed to escape while her date drowned in the car after surviving for nearly two hours taking refuge in an air pocket. Suspicions have survived for years that Kopechne was intoxicated and only reported the accident hours later when she had become sober. Rumors continue that Kopechne used inside influence in Massachusetts to avoid prosecution of serious charges. Kopechne was married at the time of the accident.
All of America, having forgotten the obscure Kennedy, continue to pray for Mary Jo Kopechne’s full recovery from her brain surgery.