RIP Mary Jo Kopechne (no politics)

[mondeo]

RIP Abe Vigoda.

No, wait, he's only mostly dead...

Let's check...
http://www.abevigoda.com/
Yep, still alive.

 

[dmc]

"This just in... Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead

 

[mondeo]

He was delicious.

 

[catskills]

I really like this thread. Its funny as all hell to read. :blink:

Not really. Its a dumb thread. Its either a really funny thread and or real dumb thread..

RIP everyone that died

 

[andyzee]

RIP everyone that died

OK, now you're being very offensive. Not everyone is a star, or a politician or a big time sports figure. How dare you say that everyone should RIP!

 

[Warp Daddy]

OK I'll play

RIP : Gabby Hayes ,, Clinton Moore , Jay Silverheels, Buffalo Bob
( bonus pts if u know who these guys are WITHOUT googling it

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Rip dj am..

 

[mattchuck2]

Ugh . . . This thread does suck.

+1 on DJ AM, though . . . That guy almost died with that drummer from Blink 182 that one time, didn't he? That's some final destination $hit.

 

[OldsnowboarderME]

RIP Mr. Rogers ..

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

RIP Big Bird

 

[OldsnowboarderME]

RIP Craig Kelly .. snowboarder extraordinaire ..

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

RIP Studio 54

 

[andyzee]

GSS looks like this is turning into your favorite thread. You RIP groupie!

 

[ERJ-145CA]

RIP Maude Flanders.

 

[thorski]

RIP-lana clarkson (the barbarian queen)
I'll never forgive phil spector.

 

[dmc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne

Kopechne, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,[1] was the only child of insurance salesman Joseph Kopechne and his wife, Gwen.[1] She was of Polish American heritage.[2] The family moved to New Jersey when she was an infant.[1] She attended parochial schools growing up.[3]
After graduating with a degree in business administration from Caldwell College for Women in New Jersey in 1962,[1][4] Kopechne moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to teach for a year at the Mission of St. Jude[1] as part of the Civil Rights Movement.[5] In 1963, she moved to Washington, D.C., to work as secretary to Florida Senator George Smathers.[1] Kopechne joined New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy's secretarial staff, following his election in 1964.[1] There she worked as a secretary to the senator's speechwriters and as a legal secretary to one of his legal advisers.[1] Kopechne was a loyal and tireless worker for Robert Kennedy, in March 1967 having stayed up all night at his Hickory Hill home to type a major speech against the Vietnam War as the senator and his aides such as Ted Sorenson made last-minute changes to it.[3][6][7]
During the 1968 U.S. presidential election, she helped with the wording of Robert Kennedy's March 1968 speech announcing his candidacy.[3] During his campaign, she worked as one of the "Boiler Room Girls", an affectionate name given to six young women who worked from a hot and loud, central windowless location in Kennedy's Washington campaign headquarters.[3][6][8][2] They were vital in tracking and compiling data and intelligence on how Democratic delegates from various states were intending to vote; Kopechne's responsibilities included Pennsylvania.[6][8] Kopechne and the other staffers were politically savvy,[8] and they were chosen for their clear heads and ability to work long hours under pressure on sensitive matters.[2] They talked daily with field managers and also served as conduits for policy statements being distributed to strategically-located newspapers.[8]
Kopechne was devastated by the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy, and after briefly working on the Kennedy proxy campaign of George McGovern, could not return to work on Capitol Hill, saying "I just feel Bobby's presence everywhere. I can't go back because it will never be the same again."[6][2] However, as her father later said, "Politics was her life,"[6] and in December 1968 she used her expertise to gain a job with Matt Reese Associates, a Washington, D.C., firm that helped establish campaign headquarters and field offices for politicians and was one of the first political consulting firms.[1][5][9] By mid-1969 she had completed work for a mayoral campaign in Jersey City, New Jersey.[2] She was on her way to a successful professional career.[10]
She lived in the Georgetown neighborhood with three other women.[1] She was a fan of the Boston Red Sox and fellow Polish American Carl Yastrzemski.[2] She was a devout Roman Catholic with a demure, serious, "convent school" demeanor, rarely drank much, and had no reputation for extramarital activities with men.[9][2][10]

 

[andyzee]

dmc, thanks, that was truly enlightening and shows a human side.

 

[dmc]

She left Penn for NJ...
She was a Red Sox fan...
Wrote speeches for Robert Kennedy and worked very closely with him.
Moved to Alabama to teach as part of the civil rights movement.
Had a bright future in politics.

So - It makes me wonder what she could've been... And think it's a amazing that she live during that time and was a person that actually did something to affect the changes that our country needed.

Ironically - given her rise in her party - she would've probably ended up as someone many people I know would have hated..

 

[Warp Daddy]

Agreed !! The real person had such wonderful potential --- you wonder what might have been , I went to undergraduate school in Wilkes _Barre and thought the local folks were among the nicest folks i've been around , RIP -- MJK

 

[dmc]

dmc, thanks, that was truly enlightening and shows a human side.

As much as I appreciate the humor - this thread was starting to get a little sidetracked.

So many times her name is invoked as an attack on Kennedy to prove some sort of point about his character. But the there's a person behind the name.

And she's of Polish descent Andy..