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| | [[File:Chappaquiddick Kennedy Car 25.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Dyke Bridge at Chappaquiddick Island, with Senator Ted Kennedy's car on the shore below, July 19, 1969]] | | [[File:Chappaquiddick Kennedy Car 25.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Dyke Bridge at Chappaquiddick Island, with Senator Ted Kennedy's car on the shore below, July 19, 1969]] |
| − | '''Chappaquiddick''' is a small island, about six square miles, just off of the eastern end of the larger Martha's Vineyard, south of [[Cape Cod]], [[Massachusetts]]. Except during some inclement weather, the two islands were connected by a narrow two-mile Katama Beach), until the winter of 2007. Chappaquiddick is part of Edgartown, Massachusetts, and most of the island is conservation land held by the Trustees of Reservations, a private organization. | + | '''Chappaquiddick''' is a small island, about six square miles, just off of the eastern end of the larger Martha's Vineyard, south of [[Cape Cod]], [[Massachusetts]]. Except during some inclement weather, the two islands were connected by a narrow two-mile Katama Beach, until the winter of 2007. Chappaquiddick is part of Edgartown, and most of the island 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, 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. | | 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. |
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| | ==Avoided jail time== | | ==Avoided jail time== |
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| − | Kennedy artfully avoided any time in jail by pleading guilty to leaving the scene of a crime, and receiving a lenient suspended sentence of two months in prison. | + | Kennedy artfully avoided any time in jail by pleading guilty to leaving the scene of a crime, and receiving a lenient suspended sentence of two months in prison. The Kennedy family was powerful in [[Massachusetts]] at the time, as was the [[Democrat Party]] there then and now, and Ted Kennedy was a [[U.S. Senator]] for the state when this happened. |
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |