Mary Jo Kopechne is the woman who died in a car driven into a canal by Ted Kennedy in 1969. For decades she was assiduously ignored by the mainstream media whenever Sen. Ted Kennedy was in the news, either for sponsoring some socialistic legislation or dropping trou in a restaurant or at a Palm Beach party house.
It turns out that Earth Day also has a Mary Jo Kopechne. She is, or was until murdered by one of the founders of Earth Day, Holly Maddux. She was murdered by Ira Einhorn, who was the emcee at the very first Earth Day, and is conveniently forgotten each year when the media falls all over themselves celebrating this faux holiday:
A friend and contemporary of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and acquaintance of authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, Timothy Leary, Alvin Toffler, and Isaac Asimov, Einhorn held the floor for a half hour, during the first Earth Day celebration, in Philadelphia, kissing Edmund Muskie on the lips before surrendering the microphone to the Senator from Maine. There is no evidence that Muskie rejected his advances, or that anyone associated with the event had ever voiced any disagreement with Einhorn’s place as a key organizer until after his arrest for the murder of Holly Maddux.
Remember Holly Maddux today, and tell your friends about its felonious founder.
