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 ...

Fifty years ago, a young Wyoming Valley native lost her life. For most of America, she will forever be remembered as “the girl” who died in Teddy Kennedy’s car at Chappaquiddick. To her family and ...

WILKES-BARRE — ABC-TV will air a show Tuesday night — “The Girl in the Car” — about Mary Jo Kopechne, the woman who died died July 18, 1969, when the 1967 Oldsmobile she was riding in, driven by Sen.

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 ...

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 ...

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 story has largely been lost to history, as the media and the public focused on the man whose career was forever damaged by the accident," ABC said Nearly 50 years after Mary Jo Kopechne‘s body ...

July 18 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1925, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was published. The book hit bookstores in Germany for the first time in 70 years in 2016 and became a best-seller. The new ...

It would be easy, and not unwarranted, to mark Thursday’s 50th anniversary of the Chappaquiddick incident by reviewing in excruciating detail all the ways that night that then-Sen. Ted Kennedy failed ...

Associated Press WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - 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 ...

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 ...