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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (17911)7/20/2002 2:23:34 PM
From: E  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21057
 
Mary Jo Kopechne didn't drown, she suffocated with her face in the air pocket. We don't know how long she breathed there before she ran out of oxygen, so we don't know that he would been able to save her had he run to the nearest house and called for help; but we do know he didn't try, and I think it's fair to guess that if that had been his daughter under the water, and the circumstances weren't embarrassing, he would have raised an alarm to try and save her life.

And as you say, he talked to a lot of people before he talked to police.



To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (17911)7/20/2002 10:39:29 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21057
 
I wasn't trying to defend him. I said I thought him guilty on two counts: driving (probably) drunk and failing to report the accident promptly.

That's enough.

Some have made a big issue out of the fact that he wasn't much of a rescuer. To me that's pretty meaningless. What's expected in that case is not that he's dive down and extract her from the car, but that he'd run for the nearest phone and get help.

He didn't.


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