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The Chappaquiddick incident occurred on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, United States, sometime around midnight, between July 18 and 19, 1969, [5] [6] when Mary Jo Kopechne died inside the car driven by United States Senator Ted Kennedy after he accidentally drove off a narrow bridge, causing it to overturn in Poucha Pond.
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy in 1963. When Kennedy died in August 2009, he was the second-most senior member of the Senate (after President pro tempore Robert Byrd of West Virginia) and the third longest-serving senator of all time, behind Byrd and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
July 16, 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr. died together with his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette, when the plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. September 16, 2011 – Kara Kennedy, daughter of Ted Kennedy, died of a heart attack while exercising in a Washington, D.C. health club.
In 1969, Ted Kennedy publicly referenced the curse when apologizing for fleeing a fatal car crash. Members of the Kennedy family have reached the highest positions in public office, becoming ...
ABC Looks Back at Chappaquiddick and Mary Jo Kopechne. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Edward Kennedy's new biographer wrestles with the senator's terrible flaws and his remarkable political legacy
Mary Jo Kopechne (/ k oʊ ˈ p ɛ k n i /; July 26, 1940 – July 18 or 19, 1969) was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the "Boiler Room Girls".
John A. Farrell's new biography, 'Ted Kennedy: A Life,' unearths new information about Chappaquiddick in a warts-and-all portrait of the late senator.