The Chappaquiddick Incident

What is the Chappaquiddick incident? Why it is called Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick Lie ?

In the year 1969, while returning from a party of women worked for his brother’s presidential campaign, Mary Jo Kopechne was a passenger in Senator Ted Kennedy’s car when he drove off Duke Bridge into the narrow channel between Chappaquiddick Island and Martha’s Vineyard.

Though Kennedy managed to escape from the water, but his co- passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned and surprisingly Ted Kennedy did not report the accident until the following day. He denied having been drunk, and said he made “seven or eight” attempts to save Kopechne before exhaustion forced him to shore.

Finally he pleaded guilty to leaving a scene of crime and received a two-month suspended sentence. Senator Edward Ted Kennedy makes a testament on the events that lead to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.

Edward Ted Kennedy was always having a bright political carrier after the death of his brother but this July 18, 1969, bt car accident on Chappaquiddick Island and the killing of Mary Jo Kopechne, his political ambitions virtually dried up.

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