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Chappaquidick Redux: Peter Lefcourt and Terry Hanauer tell Mary Joe Kopechne's Story by Brian Marks

by Brian Marks Late on the night of July 18, 1969, Ted Kennedy was driving through Chappaquiddick Island on the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard. In the car with the 37-year-old senator was Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign aide to Kennedy's assassinated brother, Robert F. Kennedy. The events of that fateful drive exist only in statements from Kennedy. What is undisputed is that the car went over a bridge, flippin…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 09:06PM on July 10, 2018

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