It played TIFF 12 days ago. Plenty of reviews but no discussion? Good review with background facts.
shareVery good movie. Shows how corrupt the Kennedy clan really was.
shareEven if Chappaquiddick hadn't happened I doubt Ted Kennedy would have been elected president in 1972. Nixon was popular, the Vietnam War was winding down, the economy was good, and his visit to China all but guaranteed him re-election.
Doesn’t mean Kennedy would not have been elected in 1976. Frankly, even if Nixon was elected in 1972, after his resignation Kennedy would have been the nominee over Carter or any other Dem in 1976. (Had Chappaquiddick not occurred)
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Doesn’t mean Kennedy would not have been elected in 1976. Frankly, even if Nixon was elected in 1972, after his resignation Kennedy would have been the nominee over Carter or any other Dem in 1976. (Had Chappaquiddick not occurred)
I think he could have gotten the nomination in 1976 even with Chappaquiddick, which had just remerged in the news around then. Carter was almost completely unknown at that point, and no one else was even considered a viable candidate. Then in the election it would have been Kennedy (Chappaquiddick) vs Ford (Pardoned Nixon). And I think the country at the time would have viewed a young girl who Kennedy was never charged for her death as much less of a big deal than letting the criminal former president off the hook.
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