Beyond the Byline: New book tells us who Mary Jo Kopechne really was
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In this July 1969 photograph, curious onlookers inspect U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy’s car in Edgartown, Mass. Mary Jo Kopechne drowned after Kennedy drove the car off Dyke Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Mass. on July 18, 1969. It’s been 50 years since the fateful automobile accident that killed a woman and thwarted Kennedy’s presidential aspirations.
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