Cover up and Kennedy, perfect together…
Via NY Post:
It’s well-known the Kennedys can be ruthless — but even to their own?
According to a new book, at least one Kennedy threatened to blackmail JFK Jr. if he refused to support a cousin accused of rape.
In “RFK, Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream,” author Jerry Oppenheimer writes that John Jr. was forced to attend the trial of William Kennedy Smith — which generated worldwide headlines and 24/7 broadcast news coverage — against his mother Jackie’s wishes.
On March 30, 1991 — Good Friday — Smith and uncle Ted Kennedy picked up two young women during a long night of bar hopping in Palm Beach, Fla.
All four, along with Ted’s son, Patrick, returned to the Kennedys’ beachfront mansion, and one of the women, Patricia Bowman, later accused Kennedy Smith of raping her.
Three other women gave sworn statements that Kennedy Smith had assaulted them back in the 1980s, but the judge disallowed those.
Oppenheimer writes about another, lesser-known sworn statement — this one given to a member of Congress in 1993 by James Ridgway de Szigethy, an acquaintance of JFK Jr.
According to de Szigethy, Kennedy Smith’s behavior was a well-known Kennedy family secret, and John had told him that “ ‘they should have done something about Willie years ago when he first started doing this,’ meaning . . . raping women.”