Chappaquiddick, Ted Kennedy scandal that left a young woman dead chronicled in new doc

Chappaquiddick, Ted Kennedy scandal that left a young woman dead chronicled in new doc



Senator Ted Kennedy’s political career was tarnished on July 18, 1969, when his car crashed off a bridge on the tiny Massachusetts island of Chappaquiddick, plunging into the dark waters of tide-swept Poucha Pond and killing 28-year-old passenger Mary Jo Kopechne — a mystery that continues to haunt “America’s Royal Family.”