ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW: 50 Years Later, ABC ‘Uncovers’ ‘Little-Known Story of Mary Jo Kopechne.’ “Which begs the question, why is Kopechne’s story so little-known and why is ABC only now uncovering it 50 years later?”

In press materials, ABC admitted the media’s culpability in taking the spotlight off of Kopechne and putting it on Kennedy, stating that “her story has largely been lost to history as the media and the public focused on the man whose career was forever damaged by the accident, rather than the bright and young woman who did not live to tell us what really happened on that mysterious night.”

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and Kopechne becoming a footnote makes perfect sense.