Unveiling the Kennedy charade

We've heard both sides of the Sen. Ted Kennedy issue and the inaccuracies have held sway.

The biggest inaccuracy of all has been the canard that Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in a tragic accident.

She didn't. She suffocated slowly as the trapped air in Kennedy's car ran out of oxygen. The autopsy found no water in the poor girl's lungs. Imagine the horror of that slow and agonizing death.

The "Lion of the Senate" was swimming the channel back to the mainland against a 3 knot tidal flow. It was necessary to get back to his hotel to fabricate a story and talk his aide into taking responsibility.

Evidently, that took some doing because the "accident" wasn't reported for two days. His swimming abilities could have been employed to save Mary Jo.

He also committed treason in the 1980s by offering to help torpedo President Ronald Reagan's initiative to place a defensive missile shield in Europe. All he asked of Yuri Andropov, general secretary of the former Soviet Union, was assistance in his (Kennedy's) bid to become president.

The rest of his exploits are too unseemly to chronicle, but suffice it to say that only a liberal with a propensity to rob one class of people of their property in order to give it to another "less endowed" group could survive.

Living and running for office from Massachusetts and being the darling of the media obviously helped considerably.

Perhaps the critics are right and the dead should not be subjected to criticism, but the attempt to "lionize" the dead is just as decadent.

This whole "Camelot" façade is as nauseating as it is false.

Terry A. Lyon

Brooksville