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Mary Jo Kopechne and Sen. Ted Kennedy (AP)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Senator Ted Kennedy\u2019s 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 the tide-swept Poucha Pond, killing 28-year-old passenger Mary Jo Kopechne \u2014\u00a0a mystery that continues to haunt \u201cAmerica\u2019s Royal Family.\u201d<\/p>\n The shocking events leading up to the political aide\u2019s demise is the subject of Fox Nation\u2019s new documentary titled \u201cScandalous: Chappaquiddick,\u201d which aims to investigate how the youngest Kennedy narrowly escaped from drowning and returned back to his hotel room unharmed while his passenger mysteriously drowned.<\/p>\n The Fox Nation special features never-before-seen interviews and retellings of the events that night, cracking down on the truth, pieces of evidence and errors that were apparent.<\/p>\n That fateful night, Kennedy offered the aide a ride from a party at Chappaquiddick\u00a0and\u00a0less than 10 hours later her dead body was being pulled from the vehicle. However, the circumstances surrounding Kopechne’s drowning remain muddled nearly 10 years after the senator’s death in 2009 at age 77.<\/p>\n At the time\u00a0members of the media swarmed Chappaquiddick,\u00a0right off the east coast of\u00a0Martha’s Vineyard, and\u00a0unraveled\u00a0Kennedy\u2019s multiple mistakes during the\u00a0evening \u2014\u00a0derailing\u00a0Kennedy\u2019s presidential ambitions for certain.<\/p>\n Kopechne reportedly remained underwater for some nine hours until she was discovered the following morning.<\/p>\n At the time of the accident, Kennedy told police he was \u201cunfamiliar with the road,\u201d and that he came up to a narrow bridge at which point the car \u201cwent off the side of the bridge.\u201d According to a description from a 1969 New York Times article, the road approaching the bridge is \u201cnarrow\u201d with \u201cno warning side on the approach.\u201d<\/p>\n Kennedy also claimed\u00a0he had \u201cno recollection\u201d of how he got out of the car but added he \u201ccame to the surface and repeatedly dove down to the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car,\u201d noting he was \u201cunsuccessful in the attempt.\u201d<\/p>\n The accident was not reported by Kennedy, but rather by a mother of a little boy who saw the overturned car in the pond when he was fishing. Kennedy later described his failure to report the incident to police as \u201cindefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n Kennedy would go on to become one of the longest-serving U.S. senators, despite previously speaking of a \u201cKennedy curse\u201d following the incident, questioning whether \u201csome awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n “Teddy Kennedy was the weak kitten in the litter, never able to measure up to his brothers. \u2026 One problem Teddy has always had was keeping it in his pants \u2014 even when other people are around”. <\/p>\n Read the article here: Chappaquiddick, Ted Kennedy scandal that left a young woman dead chronicled in new doc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
\nCleo O’Donnell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n