Mary Jo Kopechne
American political worker
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Chappaquiddick incident
- In Ted Kennedy
…companion in the car, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died. Kennedy pleaded guilty of leaving the scene of an accident. He was reelected to the Senate in 1970 but announced that he would not seek the presidency in 1972.
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…July 18–19, 1969, in which Mary Jo Kopechne died in a car driven off a bridge by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
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