Could Mary Jo Kopechne have been saved if Kennedy had immediately called for help from a passing residence or pulled the alarm at the fire station? [13] Gargan rented secluded Lawrence Cottage for the weekend on Chappaquiddick Island,[14] which is a tiny island accessible by ferry from Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard. He stopped to ask if they needed a ride, which they declined. According to Kennedy's testimony, the two men asked why he had not reported the accident, and he responded by telling them "about my own thoughts and feelings as I swam across that channel that somehow when they arrived in the morning that they were going to say that Mary Jo was still alive. Kennedy would claim repeatedly that he was sober and only traveling around 20 miles per hour when he reached the bridge, a speed at which a reasonably attentive driver could react in time,according to authoritative data at the time. [127][128], Gargan's mother was the sister of Kennedy's mother. Kennedy claimed to have told the two what had happened, and they all three drove back to the scene of the accident, again passing the fire house and the other lighted residences, without alerting anyone for help. THE CHAPPAQUIDDICK INCIDENT Updated Nov 2017 On the evening of 18 July, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy said he drove off a low wood bridge on Chappaquiddick island in the town of Edgartown, Massachusetts. The vehicles seem to be well cast and era correct, moreso than a lot of movie cars. Shortly before delivering his televised statement, Kennedy pled guilty to a misdemeanor for leaving the scene of an accident. [4] While attending University of Virginia School of Law (19561959), he had compiled a record of reckless driving and driving without a license. "[20] Witnesses at the party variously placed the time of Kennedy and Kopechne's departure between 11:00 and 11:45p.m.. Kennedy also testified that he never stopped on Cemetery Road, never backed up, never saw the deputy, and never saw another car or person after he left the cottage with Kopechne. [99] Kopechne was 5ft 2in (1.57m), a foot shorter than Kennedy, and Olsen argued that she might possibly not have seen the bridge as she drove Kennedy's car over unfamiliar roads at night, with no external lighting, and after she had consumed several alcoholic drinks. The incident severely damaged Kennedy's national reputation and reputation for judgement. Boyle, p. 80, reported at Damore, p. 363. The accident was finally reported at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday the 19, when. [citation needed], About a minute later, Look saw Kennedy's party guests Nance and Mary Ellen Lyons, and Ray LaRosa, dancing in a conga line down the middle of Chappaquiddick Road, a short distance south of Dike bridge. Was therea third person in the car? He maintained that his intent was to immediately take Kopechne to a ferry landing and return to Edgartown, but that he accidentally made a wrong turn onto a dirt road leading to a one-lane bridge. It can only be reached by the "On Time" ferry, and it is a big place. Includes a couple of 50s-era Ford and International fire and emergency vehicles and a 64 Pontiac combination professional car. Find History on Facebook (Opens in a new window), Find History on Twitter (Opens in a new window), Find History on YouTube (Opens in a new window), Find History on Instagram (Opens in a new window), Find History on TikTok (Opens in a new window), https://www.history.com/news/ted-kennedy-chappaquiddick-incident-what-really-happened-facts, Ted Kennedys Chappaquiddick Incident: What Really Happened. In a speech the following week, Kennedy maintained he had not driven drunk, and that there was no truth, no truth whatever to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct that have been leveled at my behavior and [Kopechnes] regarding that evening. Kennedy attributed his actions after the accident to injury (he suffered a concussion), shock and confusion. That Kennedy chose to drive that night was in itself unusual. And three of the car's windows had been forced in, making it unlikely that an air pocket . Ted and Mary Jo, a former staff member of Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign, were driving in Kennedy's 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 after a party when Kennedy apparently We are no longer supporting IE (Internet Explorer), Chappaquiddick: The Still Unanswered Questions, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. I was unfamiliar with the road and turned right onto Dyke Road instead of bearing a hard left on Main Street, his statement read. He further claimed that after he turned onto Dike Road, he was driving and did not realize that he was no longer headed west toward the ferry landing but was instead heading east toward the barrier beach. Chappaquiddick. Although Ulasewicz was able to interview several witnesses before law enforcement authorities, he found no useful information. Equally puzzling is a claim Kennedy made in his second statement, which was televised across the nation on July 25. In fact, many believe our article played a major role in Kennedys failure to win the nomination. Junkyard Find: 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Yet he continued on to the cottage. By Mike Damiano Globe Staff,Updated October 24, 2022, 4:34 p.m. Ted Kennedy gave varying explanations for his behavior in the hours after his infamous car crash on Chappaquiddick Island. For over an hour, they conferred inside. How strong was the current really? A new book by a Vineyard author tackles an old controversy. She was confined to bed because of two previous miscarriages, but she attended Kopechne's funeral and stood beside her husband in court. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident causing bodily injury. And I mentioned to Gargan and Markham something like, 'You take care of the other girls; I will take care of the accident! [67], At 7:30p.m. on July 25, Kennedy delivered a lengthy speech about the incident, prepared by Sorensen[61][68] and broadcast live by the three television networks. By A.O. The opportunity to work with you and serve Massachusetts has made my life worthwhile. On the night of July 18, Kopechne and the other boiler room girls (as they were known) attended a cookout at a cottage on Chappaquiddick, along with Kennedy and five other men. The two got into Kennedy's 1967 . Arena then typed out the statement:[44][Notes 4]. [16] In an October 15, 1994, interview for Ronald Kessler's book The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded, Gargan said that he and Markham returned to the scene of the accident with Kennedy, they both urged Kennedy to report the accident to the police. The case evoked much satire of Kennedy. A young woman leaves a party with a wealthy U.S. senator. This page was last edited on 9 April 2023, at 22:15. In the minds of Americans the word Chappaquiddick has come to symbolize tragedy, mystery and perhaps scandal. The site of the 1969 Chappaquiddick Island crash involving Sen. Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne. After proceeding for approximately one-half mile on Dyke [sic] Road, I descended a hill and came upon a narrow bridge. Kennedy admirer David Halberstam wrote in Harper's magazine that it was "of such cheapness and bathos as to be a rejection of everything the Kennedys had stood for in candor and style. Kennedy told only John Crimminshis aide, who handed him the car keysthat he and Kopechne were leaving. Gargan drove the three to the site of the crash, to try to rescue Kopechne from the car. [102] The book laments how the incident robbed Chappaquiddick of its traditional peace and privacy, attracting large tourist groups wanting to view the sites connected with the tragedy. The Chappy ferry cannot ask the Falmouth ferry to wait for you. [16] Kennedy entered the police station at approximately 9:50a.m. Senator Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, age 37, and his cousin, Joseph Gargan, 39,[Notes 1] planned to race Kennedy's sailboat, Victura, in the 1969 Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta on Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19, 1969, after having forgone the previous year's Regatta because of the assassination of Kennedy's brother, Robert, that June. Description Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week. Fast forward to today, with the April 6, 2018 release of Apex Entertainments film Chappaquiddick, we are reminded about questions raised back then that have gone unanswered. Gargan's mother died when he was six, and he was raised after that by Ted's parents. John Farrar, the rescue diver who was called to the scene and oversaw the cars removal from the pond, noted that many air bubbles rose from it. Kennedy claimed hed left the party with Kopechne because both wished to return to their hotels in Edgartown, however, circumstances surrounding their departure are murky. [30], Farrar believed that Kopechne "lived for at least two hours down there. During the interview, Mudd questioned Kennedy repeatedly about the incident, and at one point directly accused him of lying. [52], After President Richard Nixon's security operative Jack Caulfield learned of the incident, he dispatched Anthony Ulasewicz to Dike Bridge in disguise as a newspaper reporter to collect information since he believed Kennedy would be his rival in the 1972 presidential election. Why, more than 40 years after the infamous July 18, 1969, drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne in a car driven off the dock at Chappaquiddick by a young senator, Edward "Ted" Kennedy, are books still . Cert: Club. Farrar testified that Kopechne's body was pressed up in the car in the spot where an air bubble would have formed. The car bounced off the water like a skipping stone, continued to rotate, landed on its roof, indenting it, and sank upside down. On January 30, 1801, Congress approved $2,000 for a lighthouse, and four acres of land at Cape Poge were purchased for $36 just a couple of months later. 29K views 3 years ago #ABCNews #1969 #Chappaquiddick On the night of July 18, 1969 in Chappaquiddick, Deputy Sherriff Huck Look said he was an eyewitness that spotted Ted Kennedy's car. 191 pages, hardcover, sold in bookstores and online. The satire resulted in legal action by Volkswagen, claiming unauthorized use of its trademark; the matter was later settled out of court.[104][105]. Chappaquiddick Island, a small island off the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard, became nationally recognized following an incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy and his companion Mary Jo Kopechne in 1969. Kennedy later claimed he dove repeatedly into the strong and murky current to try and find Kopechne before making his way back to the cottage. [69] They were heavily in favor of his remaining in office, and he was re-elected in 1970 with 62% of the vote, a margin of nearly a half million votes, but it was down from 74% in the previous election in 1964. Conspiracy theories and questions endure. What he did remember was struggling to the shore, regaining his breath, and making several attempts to dive back down to the car and locate Kopechne. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Though, according to inquest testimony, during the entire evening nobody had more than three drinks, and Kennedy drank his last rum and Coca-Cola at 9 p.m. Kennedy claimed that he didnt see the bridge until he was nearly upon it. I attempted to open the door and the window of the car, but have no re-collection of how I got out of the car. 2023, A&E Television Networks, LLC. Principal photography began in Boston, in September 2016. [86], Kennedy testified that he had "full intention of reporting it. The fallout from the accident (and lingering rumors of a cover-up) permanently doomed Kennedys presidential ambitions: In 1980, when he finally did seek the Democratic presidential nomination, he suffered an embarrassing defeat to the unpopular incumbent Jimmy Carter. How long was Mary Jo Kopechne alive after the car flipped? In a televised statement that same evening, he said his conduct immediately after the accident "made no sense to me at all", and that he regarded his failure to report the accident immediately as "indefensible". On July 18, 1969, at approximately 11:15 p.m. in Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, I was driving my car on Main Street on my way to get the ferry back to Edgartown. Chappaquiddick: Directed by John Curran. No one can look at the beautiful rolling fields of Gettysburg without mentally peopling them with the mangled corpses of men and horses. On reaching the Chappaquiddick shore the three entered the small ferry shed on the landing where a public telephone hung on the wall. Running Time: 1 hr 41 mins. On May 27, the registrar informed Kennedy in a letter that "I am unable to find that the fatal accident in which a motor vehicle operated by you was involved, was without serious fault on your part" and so his driver's license was suspended for a further six months. Why did he wait so long to report the accident? Judge Wilfred Paquet instructed the members of the grand jury that they could consider only matters brought to their attention by the superior court, the district attorney, or their personal knowledge. I often have a good sense of what transpired during those two hours, give or take, and dont re, Latines love entertainment. Timing also helped: During that fateful weekend at Chappaquiddick, most Americans had their eyes glued to their TVs, watching a different drama unfold: the Moon Landing. After Kennedy's death, New York Times Magazine editor Ed Klein stated that Kennedy asked people, "Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?" Boyle did not recuse himself, even though he had presided over the hearing at which Kennedy pled guilty. [17] Others in attendance were attorney Charles Tretter, a Kennedy advisor; and Raymond LaRosa, who had worked on Kennedy's Senate campaigns. He asked to make some telephone calls, and was told he could use Arena's office. The next morning, Gargan was wearing a short-sleeve shirt, and the police chief noticed no arm injuries. [32], At the ferry landing, Kennedy dove into the water and swam 500 feet (150m) across the channel to Edgartown. April 4, 2018. [23] Look recalled that the car's license plate began with an L and contained two 7s, consistent with Kennedy's license L78207 on his Oldsmobile Delmont 88. Summer: 6:30 a.m.- midnight. When he got there, instead of going inside and calling the police, he claimed to have climbed into the backseat of one of the cars parked there. The body was moved from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania, where Kopechnes family lived, without undergoing an autopsy. Sen. Ted Kennedy passed away Aug. 25, 2009, making the remarks about Chappaquiddick in his posthumous memoir, True Compass, his final . Bettmann Archive/Getty Kopechne would have been 79 this year. [76] Boyle announced the inquest was scheduled to start on September 3, and would be open to the press. I remember walking around for a period and then going back to my hotel room. [18] Rosemary Keough's purse was found in the front passenger compartment of the car, causing Arena to misidentify Kopechne. Written by investigative journalist John Barron, Chappaquiddick: The Still Unanswered Questions gained national attention. Gargan then told everyone to get some sleep. Further, Kennedy declined to serve as George McGovern's running mate that year. The expert, Raymond McHenry, used a computer recreation of the scene, including analysis of the skid marks left on the bridge, to conclude that Kennedys car was indeed traveling faster than he had claimed. This, as well as the position of the body in the car, suggest to many that Kopechne had been breathing from an air pocket for some time before her death. Fourth-generation Chappaquiddick resident Bill Pinney, in his 2017 book Chappaquiddick Speaks, presents a theory that Kopechne was seriously injured in an earlier crash, and then the bridge accident was faked. At around 12:40a.m., after he passed the intersection with Dike Road, he saw a dark four-door sedan driven by a man, with a woman in the front seat, approaching and passing slowly in front of him. These behind-the-scenes maneuverings are explored in the 2018 film Chappaquiddick, whose script is based on the historical record, including the inquest into the accident released by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1970. Updated: September 4, 2018 | Original: April 6, 2018. The Chappaquiddick incident refers to the circumstances surrounding the 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a former staff member in Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. Kennedy's Car After Chappaquiddick Accident. John Barron, author of the Readers Digestcover story, raised suspicions that Mary Jo, at least, had expected to return. I know she suffocated when her oxygen ran out, the diver, John Farrar, said in a book about the incident. "Black Water and Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates: Two Drownings in Comparison", in Revell, n.3, vol 26, pp. Malm stated later that she was home, she had a phone, and she had left a light on at the residence when she retired that evening. Paul Markham was backing me up on it. A photographic reproduction of Arena's typing was Exhibit number 2 at the inquest, and is available at, Arena for some reason typed "Dyke", though Markham used the correct spelling "Dike". Kennedy said that he called her name several times from the shore, and tried to swim down to reach her seven or eight times. [74] He received a response the next day that such inquests are under jurisdiction of the District Court. The fateful events at Chappaquiddick ended Mary Jo Kopechnes life and derailed Ted Kennedys presidential ambitions for good. [123], In 2019, the incident was featured in a season of Fox Nation's Scandalous. All Rights Reserved. She died of suffocation in her own air void. On July 18, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedys Oldsmobile careened off a 10.5-foot-wide bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Edgartown, Massachusetts, resulting in the death of 28-year-old campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne. A local contractor named Duncan McBean constructed a thirty-five-foot octagonal wooden tower, as well as a small, two-room keeper's house. bridge first, the car rotated in air, landing flush on the passenger side of the car, imploding tempered glass shards from the windows and denting the entire side of the car. While some observers of the case suspected she could have been saved if Kennedy had gone for help earlier, othersincluding James E.T. John Barron, therefore, believed that he was actually traveling much faster, and he set out to prove it. There were no witnesses to his would-be rescues. Ted said, 'Okay, okay, Joey, okay. I was exhausted and in a state of shock. [63] In one particular March 14, 1958, incident, Kennedy ran a red light, then cut his tail lights and raced to avoid a highway patrol officer. he didn't even know she was in the car, according to a retired CIA operative. [124][125][126], The 2019 series For All Mankind depicts an alternate timeline where Kennedy cancels his Chappaquiddick party after Soviets land on the Moon before the U.S., thus avoiding Kopechne's death; Kennedy eventually wins the 1972 Presidential election and is later accused of having an extramarital affair with Kopechne, who is working as a White House aide. Drama, History, Thriller. I recall walking back to where my friends were eating. However, Kennedy also had claimed that the reason that he, Gargan, and Markham hadnt called for help the night before was because, after their failed attempts to dive down to the car, they were convinced that it was too late and that she was dead. So, I ask you tonight, the people of Massachusetts, to think this through with me. [citation needed] He said he was overcome "by a jumble of emotions grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion, and shock". After his car skidded off the bridge into Poucha Pond, Kennedy swam free, and maintained that he tried to rescue Kopechne from the submerged car, but that he could not. Meghan Jones is a word nerd who has been writing for RD.com since 2017. The front passenger seat occu- There was a car parked in front of the cottage, and I climbed into the backseat. As a result, Mary Jo Kopechne remained underwater for some nine hours until her body was recovered the next morning. A movie about the incident called "Chappaquiddick" is set to open in theaters on Friday. 1980 I Wouldn't Ride Used Car Anti Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick Candidate Pinback. 276291. He said that his conduct during the hours immediately after the accident "made no sense to me at all", and said that his doctors had informed him he had suffered "cerebral concussion and shock". Movie cars Island crash involving Sen. Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechnes life and derailed Ted Kennedys ambitions... 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