RIP Ted Kennedy
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and its amazing how much people forget
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident
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The term "Chappaquiddick incident" refers to the circumstances surrounding the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker for the assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York.
In July 1969, Kopechne's dead body was discovered inside an overturned car belonging to Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts under water in a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts.
After the body was found, Kennedy gave a statement to police saying that on the previous night he had taken a wrong turn and accidentally driven his car off a bridge into the water. He pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, and received a suspended sentence.
The incident became a national scandal, and may have affected the Senator's decision not to run for President in 1972.
In July 1969, Kopechne's dead body was discovered inside an overturned car belonging to Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts under water in a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts.
After the body was found, Kennedy gave a statement to police saying that on the previous night he had taken a wrong turn and accidentally driven his car off a bridge into the water. He pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, and received a suspended sentence.
The incident became a national scandal, and may have affected the Senator's decision not to run for President in 1972.
However as Bill Maher joked about, the Chappaquiddick issue probably altered the course of American history, since it cause Ted Kennedy to not run for president, which he probably would have won, and then pulled out of Vietname hehe...