Mary Jo Kopechne was killed in an auto accident in which Edward Kennedy was the driver of the vehicle. Kopechne was a former campaign worker for Kennedy’s older brother, Robert F. Kennedy. On 18 July 1969, Kopechne attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, a short ferry ride off the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. E dward Kennedy and Kopechne left the party together later that night in Kennedy’s Oldsmobile Delmont 88. A short time later, their car plunged off the Dike Bridge into a pond, where it overturned. Kopechne died in the car.
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