On July 18, 1969, Sen. Ted Kennedy’s car crashed off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island and plunged into the water below –– killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old campaign worker ...

It's been almost 50 years since Luzerne County Native Mary Jo Kopechne was killed when then-Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts. A new movie about the crash called ...

Her tragic death on Chappaquiddick Island ended Sen. Ted Kennedy’s realistic presidential prospects. The grave of Mary Jo Kopechne and her parents lies next to the family marker in St. Vincent’s ...

“Nobody was asking for it but we thought it would be a great story,” said Chappaquiddick‘s screenwriter Taylor Allen who, along with the film’s co-scribe Andrew Logan, stopped by the Deadline Studio ...

Mary Jo Kopechne did not die in vain. A new biography of the victim of Chappaquiddick both lauds her wholesomeness and high moral standards and connects her death, uniquely but reasonably, to 40-plus ...

Nearly 50 years after Mary Jo Kopechne‘s body was found in a submerged car belonging to Sen. Ted Kennedy, ABC is devoting an hour to her strange death. In an exclusive preview (above) from “The Girl ...

BOSTON — The crash ended a young woman’s life, and with it, a man’s White House dreams. U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s Oldsmobile sedan veered off a narrow bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, an extension ...

A cousin of the woman who died in Ted Kennedy's car on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 says she hopes the late senator and her cousin are "now at peace." Mary Jo Kopechne's (koh-PECK'-nee) cousin ...

Today would have been Mary Jo Kopechne’s 80th birthday. Of course, Mary Jo didn’t even make it to 29 – she died on July 18, 1969, when Sen. Ted Kennedy drunkenly drove his mother’s 1967 Oldsmobile ...

On July 18, 1969, Sen. Ted Kennedy’s car crashed off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island and plunged into the water below –– killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old campaign worker ...