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Mary Jo Kopechne (/ k oʊ ˈ p ɛ k n i /; July 26, 1940 – July 18 or 19, 1969) was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the "Boiler Room Girls".
The Chappaquiddick incident occurred on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, United States, sometime around midnight, between July 18 and 19, 1969, [5] [6] when Mary Jo Kopechne died inside the car driven by United States Senator Ted Kennedy after he accidentally drove off a narrow bridge, causing it to overturn in Poucha Pond.
6 kwi 2018 · Though newspaper headlines at the time identified her simply as a “blonde,” she was 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, a respected political operative who had worked on the presidential campaign...
The Chappaquiddick incident occurred July 18–19, 1969, at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, U.S., in which Mary Jo Kopechne died in a car driven by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
2 kwi 2018 · In 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy careened a car off a bridge, killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, but the story of the night’s events remain muddled today.
18 lip 2024 · On July 18, 1969, Ted Kennedy was involved in a bizarre car accident that killed young political aide Mary Jo Kopechne. On the event's 55th anniversary, learn about Ted's Chappaquiddick...
18 lip 2019 · Fifty years ago, Mary Jo Kopechne was killed when Sen. Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge. Questions about the accident haunted him for the rest of his career.
