This is an article posted by the great Howie Carr. One of the sharpest differences I have with Carr and other Kennedy haters is that I do not judge the Kennedys collectively. John Kennedy was a great man and Bobby Kennedy might have been bound for glory had he not been gunned down by a Palestinian madman. The rest of the clan, well that is another matter altogether.
I was sadly disappointed when Carr's long-awaited book about the Kennedys finally surfaced. I was expecting a scholarly tome in the tradition of Collier and Horowitz that would be discussed on C-Span 3 and reluctantly moored in our nation's libraries. Instead, Carr fell back on his tabloid roots and gave us "Kennedy Babylon" which I have not read and probably will not read. Howie the journalist would take a backseat to Howie the showman.
Despite getting in a couple of insults about JFK, Carr delivers an interesting obituary.
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She is survived by, among others, a 31-year-old daughter and two grandsons.
The accident had no adverse impact on Joe Kennedy’s life and career, of course. For crippling Pam Kelley, he had to appear before a local judge who had graduated from Harvard with his uncle and namesake Joseph Kennedy Jr., a judge who like Joe’s father Bobby
had once worked in Washington for Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.
In between sporadic attendance at a string of second- and third-tier colleges, Joe was accompanied to court by his mother Ethel and his uncle Ted.
The senator was making his own first appearance in a state courtroom since pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after killing Mary Jo Kopechne in his own motor-vehicle accident four years earlier on Martha’s Vineyard.
For putting Pam Kelley in a wheelchair for the rest of her life, the family-retainer judge fined Joe Kennedy $100.
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