In the early morning hours of July 19, 1969, a black Oldsmobile sedan
turned down a narrow dirt road and careened away in a cloud of dust. As
the car approached a wooden bridge that sat at an oblique angle to the
road, it failed to slow. Too late, the driver realized his error. The
car dropped over the side of the bridge, turned over and plunged into
the Poucha Pond.
The driver escaped the overturned and water-filled car. A 28-year-old female passenger did not. What followed doomed the Presidential aspirations of 37-year-old Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy.
Only Kennedy knew exactly what happened in the hours following the accident. He apparently took the truth with him to the grave. But this much has been gleaned from investigations into the accident:
The driver escaped the overturned and water-filled car. A 28-year-old female passenger did not. What followed doomed the Presidential aspirations of 37-year-old Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy.
Only Kennedy knew exactly what happened in the hours following the accident. He apparently took the truth with him to the grave. But this much has been gleaned from investigations into the accident:
- Kennedy was hosting a reunion party on Chappaquiddick Island for a group of six women (the “Boiler Room Girls”), including Mary Jo Kopechne, who had served in Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Presidential campaign. Chappaquiddick is connected via ferry to the town of Edgartown, Mass., which is located on Martha’s Vinyard.
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