| | '''Chappaquiddick''' is 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 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. |
| − | 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. The woman left her purse, driver's license, and room key at the party when she departed that evening with Senator Kennedy, and her underwear was missing when her dead body was recovered. | + | It was the location of the death on Friday, July 18, 1969, of an attractive young, blonde 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. The woman left her purse, driver's license, and room key at the party when she departed that evening with Senator Kennedy, and her underwear was missing when her dead body was recovered. |
| | Kennedy reportedly made 17 phone calls, before eventually mentioning it to the police the following day. <ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7003193/Chappaquiddick-investigator-claims-warned-not-hard-questioning-Ted-Kennedy.html</ref> 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"/> | | Kennedy reportedly made 17 phone calls, before eventually mentioning it to the police the following day. <ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7003193/Chappaquiddick-investigator-claims-warned-not-hard-questioning-Ted-Kennedy.html</ref> 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"/> |