55 years ago, Ted Kennedy was enmeshed in a fatal car accident that would haunt him until his death Jennifer Lynch is a former contributor at PEOPLE. Every July, the anniversary of the tragic 1969 ...

Ted Kennedy plunged off the Dike Bridge into the waters off of Martha’s Vineyard, killing his 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne? On July 18, 1969, Kopechne, who had worked on Sen.

All these years later, much is still the same at the site where Sen. Ted Kennedy careened off Dyke Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island 52 years ago, in a watery crash from which he saved himself but ...