Her tragic death on Chappaquiddick Island ended Sen. Ted Kennedy’s realistic presidential prospects. The grave of Mary Jo Kopechne and her parents lies next to the family marker in St. Vincent’s ...
Mary Jo Kopechne died in July 1969 after Ted Kennedy's car drove off a bridge. On the night of July 18, 1969, a group of women known as the Boiler Room Girls, who had worked for Robert F. Kennedy’s ...
PLYMOUTH — A new book will tell the reader about Mary Jo Kopechne’s life, but it won’t discuss Chappaquiddick. Georgetta Nelson Potoski, Kopechne’s first cousin, and her son, William Nelson, have ...
Forty years later, there are still more questions than answers. Why did Kennedy, then a 37-year-old married senator, leave the party with 29-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne? Why did he drive in the wrong ...
Nearly 50 years after Mary Jo Kopechne‘s body was found in a submerged car belonging to Sen. Ted Kennedy, ABC is devoting an hour to her strange death. In an exclusive preview (above) from “The Girl ...
THE authorities investigating the death of Mary Jo Kopechne have caused nearly as much uncertainty as Edward Kennedy’s own partial explanations of the accident that killed her. At first, there was ...
The death of Mary Jo Kopechne has already become one of the most controversial fatal accidents in the history of the U.S. Last week, as the date of an inquest demanded by Massachusetts District ...
How We’re Remembering Ted KennedyIs he first a “liberal lion”? A “family patriarch”? The “health-care power broker”? Or are people this morning talking about something else?