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Kennedy's wife Joan was pregnant at the time of the Chappaquiddick incident. She was confined to bed because of two previous miscarriages, but she attended Kopechne's funeral and stood beside her husband in court. [65] Soon after, she suffered a third miscarriage, [66] which she blamed on the Chappaquiddick incident. [67]
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".
The movie depicts Edward (Ted) Kennedy attempting to persuade Mary Jo Kopechne to join his presidential campaign. [17] In the film, Mary Jo is seen as a political strategist and victim to the car crash. [17] Aside from mentioning Robert (Bobby) Kennedy's campaign, the Boiler Room Girls' other political work is not mentioned. [17]
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Kennedy, therefore, knew that Mary Jo Kopechne was pregnant because she had told him so, according to this scenario. Discovering she was dead, he realized that if Kopechne’s pregnancy became public after her death, he might be falsely accused of siring the child (applicable DNA methods did not exist at the time).
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Drowned off the beach at San Diego, Hotel Del Coronado November 1904. Grace Brown (born 1886), American garment industry worker. She drowned in New York's Big Moose Lake on June 11, 1906, after she fell out of a boat being rowed by her boyfriend, Chester Gillette, nephew of her employer. Witnesses said Gillette had struck her on the head with a ...