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- Background
- Sequence of Events
- Recovery of The Body
- Defense Strategy
- Arraignment
- Kennedy's Televised Statement
- Inquest
- Grand Jury Investigation
- Motor Vehicles Investigation
- Fringe Theories
U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, aged 37, and his cousin, Joseph Gargan, aged 39,[Notes 1] planned to race Kennedy's sailboat, Victura, in the 1969 Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta on Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19, 1969, after having forgone the previous year's Regatta because of the assassination of Kennedy's brother, Robert, that June. Gar...
The crash
According to Kennedy, Kopechne asked him to give her a ride back to her hotel in Katama. Kennedy requested the keys to his car (which he did not usually drive) from his chauffeur Crimmins. Kennedy put this time at "approximately 11:15p.m.", although he was not wearing a watch; the time came from Crimmins' watch.Returning to Edgartown and Katama required making the last ferry, which left the island at midnight, or else calling to arrange a later ferry. Kopechne told no one else that she was le...
Rescue attempts
Kennedy was able to swim free of the vehicle, but Kopechne was not. Kennedy said that he called her name several times from the shore, and tried to swim down to reach her seven or eight times. He then rested on the bank for around fifteen minutes before he returned on foot to Lawrence Cottage. He denied seeing any house with a light on during his fifteen-minute walk back. His route took him past four houses from which he could have telephoned to summon help before he reached the cottage, but...
Kennedy's reaction
At the ferry landing, Kennedy dove into the water and swam 500 feet (150 m) across the channel to Edgartown. He then walked to his hotel room, removed his clothes and collapsed on his bed. He later put on dry clothes, left his room and asked someone what the time was; it was somewhere around 2:30 a.m., he recalled. Gargan and Markham had driven the rented Plymouth back to the cottage; they entered the cottage at approximately 2 a.m. but told no one what had happened. When questioned by the gu...
A short time after 8 a.m., a man and a fifteen-year-old boy, who went fishing off Tom's Neck Point, saw Kennedy's submerged car in Poucha Pond and notified the residents of the cottage nearest the scene, who, in turn, called the authorities at about 8:20 a.m. Edgartown Police Chief Dominick James Arena arrived at the scene about ten or fifteen minu...
Kennedy returned to his family's compound in Hyannis Port. Stephen Smith, Robert McNamara, Ted Sorensen, Richard N. Goodwin, Lem Billings, Milton Gwirtzman, David W. Burke, John Culver, Tunney, Gargan, Markham and others arrived to advise him. Smith, the Kennedy family's business manager and "master fixer", decided the political damage was catastro...
Kennedy's court hearing was held before Massachusetts District Court Judge James Boyle on July 25, seven days after the incident. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident causing bodily injury. His attorneys argued that any jail sentence should be suspended, and the prosecutors agreed by citing his age (37), character ...
At 7:30 p.m. on July 25, Kennedy delivered a lengthy statement about the incident, prepared by Sorensen and broadcast live by the three television networks.He began by reading the speech off a prepared manuscript. Kennedy explained that his wife did not accompany him to the regatta due to "reasons of health". He denied engaging in any "immoral cond...
Although Kennedy received many messages from voters opposed to his resignation from the Senate, reaction in much of the news media, and of District Attorney Edmund Dinis, was that Kennedy's televised speech left many questions unanswered about how the accident happened, and his delay in reporting it. On July 31, the same day Kennedy returned to his...
On April 6, 1970, a Dukes County grand jury assembled in special session to investigate Kopechne's death. Judge Wilfred Paquet instructed the members of the grand jury that they could consider only matters brought to their attention by the superior court, the district attorney or their personal knowledge. He cited the orders of the Massachusetts Su...
On July 23, 1969, the registrar of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles informed Kennedy that his license would be suspended until there was a statutory hearing concerning the accident. The suspension was required by Massachusetts law for any fatal motor vehicle accident if there were no witnesses. The in camerahearing was held May 18, 1970...
Journalist Jack Olsen wrote the first investigative book on the case, The Bridge at Chappaquiddick, in 1970, attempting to solve the unanswered questions of the incident. Lieutenant Bernie Flynn, a state police detective assigned to the Cape Cod district attorney's office, was a Kennedy admirer who came up with a theory which he couldn't prove: tha...
- Negligent operation by Ted Kennedy
- Mary Jo Kopechne, aged 28
- July 18–19, 1969
- Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts
The Burari deaths were a ritual mass suicide [1] of eleven family members of the Chundawat family [2] from Burari, Delhi, India, in 2018. Ten people were found hanged, while the oldest family member, the grandmother, was strangled. The bodies were found on 1 July 2018, in the early morning after the death. The police have ruled the deaths were ...
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According to the WHO, worldwide, about 0.5 million deaths are attributable to uses of drugs, with more than 70% of these being related to opioids, with overdose being the direct cause of more than 30% of those deaths. [39] Various uses of various opioids accounts for many deaths worldwide, termed opioid epidemic.
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