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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, who was trapped inside the vehicle, died in the car driven by United States Senator Ted Kennedy after he drove his car off a narrow bridge, causing it to overturn in Poucha Pond.
Mary Jo Kopechne (/ koʊˈpɛkni /; 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". In 1969, she asphyxiated when a car driven by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy left a narrow road on ...
Still trapped inside the car, Kopechne drowned in the water. ... Twenty years later, in 2019, tragedy struck the next generation of Kennedys when Saoirse Kennedy Hill, Robert's granddaughter, died ...
Maeve Fahey Kennedy McKean[1] (née Townsend; November 1, 1979 – April 2, 2020) was an American public health official, human rights attorney, and academic. A member of the Kennedy family, she was a daughter of Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and a granddaughter of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and Gideon McKean, 8, went missing on April 3 in what was later deemed a canoeing accident. The deaths of Robert F. Kennedy's granddaughter, great-grandson ruled ...
Robert F. Kennedy's 40-year-old granddaughter Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and her 8-year-old son are presumed dead following a canoeing accident.
The " Boiler Room Girls " was a nickname for a group of six women who worked as political advisors for Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign in a windowless work area in Kennedy's Washington, D.C. electoral offices. They were political strategists who received national media exposure from the infamous Chappaquiddick incident in 1969.
A 22-year-old granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy died Thursday following an apparent overdose at the family's compound in Massachusetts, the family and media reports said.