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Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Bridge at Chappaquiddick (Part One)

On July 19, 1969 an auto accident, involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the death of a young woman, changed the course of American political history forever.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 1968
Edward Kennedy, campaigning in 1962
John Farrar examining the Kennedy automobile as it is being removed from the water near Dike Bridge
Ted Kennedy during nationwide speech following the Chappaquiddick accident
District Attorney Edmund Dinis
Edgartown Police Chief Dominick “Jim” Arena, later in life