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The Chappaquiddick incident was when U.S Senator Edward M Kennedy drove his car off a bridge into the Chappaquiddick tidal canal, killing his female passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
Mary Jo was attending a party in a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick Island. The cottage is about 400 yards away from the Chappaquiddick Road/Dike Bridge Road intersection, on Chappaquiddick Road. The party was for the Boiler Room Girls, 5 young women who worked tirelessly on the Bobby Kennedy 4 President campaign. Mary Jo was one of those 5.
Edward Kennedy at Chappaquiddick on the 18th of July, 1969.
(chap-uh-KWID-ik) An automobile accident in 1969 that greatly affected the career of Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy of Massachusetts. A woman on Kennedy's staff drowned at Chappaquiddick Island, off the Massachusetts coast, after a car that Kennedy had been driving, and in which she had been riding, went off a bridge. Kennedy survived, but delayed informing the police, and has never provided a full explanation of the incident. Afterward, many voters lost confidence in Kennedy, who had been considered a strong possibility to be nominated by the Democratic party for president. 1
"Black Water" was written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is a novel inspired by the true events of the Chappaquiddick incident involving Senator Edward Kennedy.
1967 oldsmobile delmont 88
approx. 12 feet
Mary Jo Kopechnie
Morar Kennedy has written: 'Susan's Cottage'
Theodore Kennedy has written: 'Plymouth Congregational Church, 1854-1954' -- subject(s): Kan Lawrence, Lawrence, Kan. Plymouth Congregational Church
July of l969 near the 20th tied with the Apollo Moon landing for headline space. Space in both senses? Death of an attractive,. 28 year old Blonde.
Unfortunately, Ted will be remembered most for not notifying the authorities till afterthey found Mary Jo Kopechne's dead body in his overturned car beneath the watersof the Chappaquiddick tidal channel.