Flyover Country : 2020-07-12

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Glen Loury:

Race and Equality: This is the time to protect civilization and protect institutions. When people start toppling statues of Abraham Lincoln and spray-painting on statues of George Washington, “a slave owner,” things fall apart. The center cannot hold. We teeter on the brink of catastrophe.

On this day in 1969,

LIBERAL ICON TEDDY KENNEDY
KILLS MARY JO KOPECHNE

IN CAR ACCIDENT

AFTER LEAVING HER TO SUFFOCATE

On this day in 1969, Mary Jo Kopechne attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, off the east coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The celebration was in honor of the dedicated work of the Boiler Room Girls, and was the fourth such reunion of the Robert F. Kennedy campaign workers. Ted Kennedy attended for his late brother.

Kopechne reportedly left the party at 11:15 p.m. with Ted. According to his own account, he offered to drive her to catch the last ferry back to Edgartown, where she was staying. She did not tell her close friends at the party that she was leaving, and she left her purse and keys behind. Kennedy drove the 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 off a narrow, unlit bridge, which was without guardrails and was not on the route to Edgartown.

The Oldsmobile landed in Poucha Pond and overturned in the water; Kennedy extricated himself from the vehicle and survived, but Kopechne did not and died in the submerged vehicle eight days shy of her twenty-ninth birthday.

Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities until the car and Kopechne's body were discovered the next morning. . .

The captain of the local fire department testified at the inquest:

It looked as if she were holding herself up to get a last breath of air. It was a consciously assumed position.... She didn't drown. She died of suffocation in her own air void. It took her at least three or four hours to die. I could have had her out of that car twenty-five minutes after I got the call. But he [Ted Kennedy] didn't call. . .

Farrar testified later at the inquest that Kopechne's body was pressed up in the car in the spot where an air bubble would have formed. He interpreted that to mean that Kopechne had survived in the air bubble after the crash, and he concluded that:

Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim's side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.

Farrar believed that Kopechne "lived for at least two hours down there."

A week after the incident, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury. He received a two-month suspended sentence. . . .

Source Article I - Wikipedia Mary Jo Kopechne
Source Article II - Wikipedia Chappaquiddick Incident

Sheryl Attkisson:
New Russia probe memos show even Peter Strzok thought there were massive errors in NYT anti-Trump story, Steele dossier

Friday, July 17, 2020

Jonathan Turley:
Seattle City Council Member Suggests Firing White Officers In Massive Reduction Of Police Department

TVA says this UV light will kill COVID-19, offers incentives

On this day in 1955,

DISNEYLAND OPENS

Video: Entire ABC Broadcast of opening ceremony with host Art Linkletter

On this day in 1945,

Truman Meets Mass-Murderer Stalin -

Finds Him "Cordial"

On this day in 1941,

Joe DiMaggio's 56 Game Hitting Streak Ends

The greatest achievement in baseball history

Streak stopped by two outstanding plays by Milwaukeean and All-Star Kenny Keltner

Video: MLB 75th anniversary commercial (2016)

Thursday, July 16, 2020

The Federalist
Intercept Columnist Complains Trump Doesn’t Execute White Supremacists, A Day After The Government Executed A White Supremacist

On this day in 2009,

OBAMA MEDDLES IN LOCAL BOSTON POLICE MATTER TO HELP PERSONAL FRIEND

Slanders White, Certified Diversity Trainer Who Once Tried To Save African American NBA Player Reggie Lewis With Mouth-to-Mouth CPR

On this day in 2009, Democrat President Barack Obama accused white Boston police officer James Crowley, a certified police trainer in diversity and racial profiling, of “acting stupidly” when he arrested Obama’s personal friend, African-American and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, for disorderly conduct.

Crowley had previously gained notice for being one of two police officers who had administered CPR, including mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, in a failed attempt to revive African-American and Boston Celtics basketball star Reggie Lewis, who died on the court during practice.

According to press reports, Gates had just returned from a long trip overseas, was tired, and both he and his driver had trouble getting his front door open. After entering through a back door and then exiting, Gates and his driver forced their way into the front door, damaging the door.

After a neighborhood resident reported a possible break-in at Gates’ house, Crowley arrived at the scene, went up to the front door, and asked Gates to step outside. Crowley explained he was investigating the report of a break-in in progress.

Gates asked, "Why, because I'm a black man in America?"

Gates then threatened Crowley by saying he did not know who he was "messing with."

Crowley asked Gates for a photo ID in order to verify he lived there. Gates initially refused, but then supplied his Harvard University identification card. However, Gates went on to repeatedly shout requests for Crowley’s identification.

Crowley then told Gates that he was leaving his residence and that if Gates wanted to continue discussing the matter, he would speak to him outside.

Gates replied, "Yeah, I'll speak with your mama outside."

Gates stepped onto his front porch and continued to yell at Crowley, accusing him of racial bias and saying he had not heard the last of him. On the 9-1-1 dispatcher audio recordings, a man's loud voice is heard in the background at several points during Sgt. Crowley's transmissions.

Crowley warned Gates that he was becoming disorderly. When Gates ignored this warning and persisted in his behavior, and likewise ignored a second warning from Crowley, Crowley informed Gates that he was under arrest.

Obama’s use of his presidency to mischaracterize Crowley’s behavior, with no criticism of Gates’ behavior, set off a national uproar which he later attempted to mollify with a White House Beer Summit in the Rose Garden.