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'''Chappaquiddick''' is the name of a small island, about six square miles, just off of Martha's Vineyard south of [[Cape Cod]], [[Massachusetts]]. Most of it is conservation land held by the Trustees of Reservations, a private organization.
 
'''Chappaquiddick''' is the name of a small island, about six square miles, just off of Martha's Vineyard south of [[Cape Cod]], [[Massachusetts]]. Most of it is conservation land held by the Trustees of Reservations, a private organization.
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It was the location of the death on Friday, July 18, 1969, of an attractive young woman after she left a summer party with a powerful married [[liberal]] [[Democrat]], Senator [[Ted Kennedy]], who then evaded justice for his crime relating to her death.
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It was the location of the death on Friday, July 18, 1969, of an attractive young, blond woman after she left a summer party with a powerful married [[liberal]] [[Democrat]], Senator [[Ted Kennedy]], who then evaded justice for his crime relating to her death.
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Kennedy never apologized to the victim's parents.<ref name="Parents">https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/mary-jo-kopechnes-parents/</ref>  It remains unknown whether Kennedy was driving while intoxicated and/or had sex with the victim, whose parents were devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]]s.  A 2017 critically acclaimed documentary movie entitled "Chappaquiddick" (called "The Senator" for its release in [[England]]), implied a relationship between Kennedy and the victim.  Twenty year after the incident, the victim's father told a reporter that his daughter had not died in vain because it kept Ted Kennedy from ever becoming president.<ref name="Parents"/>
    
==The death of Mary Jo Kopechne==
 
==The death of Mary Jo Kopechne==
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