When did Ted Kennedy report the accident?

When did Ted Kennedy report the accident?

At 9:45 a.m., 10 hours after driving off Dike Road bridge, Kennedy reported the accident to Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena and admitted that he was the driver.

Where did Ted Kennedy stay in Edgartown?

the Shiretown Inn
The inn where Ted Kennedy was staying in Edgartown was the Shiretown Inn and it is no more. The party house was on the main paved road (a private house which was rented). It’s not that far from the road to the Dike Bridge where the car went off.

Is the bridge in Chappaquiddick still there?

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 where passenger Mary Jo Kopechne was left behind to die. The bridge itself is different.

Where did Ted Kennedy go off the bridge?

After his car skidded off the bridge into Poucha Pond, Kennedy swam free, and maintained that he tried to rescue Kopechne from the submerged car, but that he could not. Kopechne’s death could have happened any time between about 11:30 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m.

What bridge did Kennedy Drive off?

After his car skidded off the bridge into Poucha Pond, Kennedy swam free, and maintained that he tried to rescue Kopechne from the submerged car, but that he could not. Kopechne’s death could have happened any time between about 11:30 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m….Chappaquiddick incident.

Did Ted Kennedy resign after Chappaquiddick?

In the end, Kennedy didn’t resign from the Senate, but he did announce he wouldn’t run for president in 1972, as many supporters had been hoping he would before Chappaquiddick. He knew at the time the accident would be devastating to his family, Kennedy admitted, as well as damaging to his political career.

Where was Robert F Kennedy shot?

PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
Robert F. Kennedy/Place of death

What happened to Ted Kennedy’s passenger?

Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours.

What happened to Ted Kennedy’s car on Chappaquiddick Island?

Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not.

Who was Ted Kennedy’s older brother?

Bobby Kennedy was Ted Kennedy’s older brother, and following Bobby’s assassination in June 1968 Ted took up his family’s political torch. In 1969, Ted Kennedy was elected majority whip in the U.S. Senate, and he seemed an early front-runner for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.

What happened on the Dyke Bridge on Chappaquiddick?

The Dyke Bridge on Chappaquiddick is at the end of a dirt road and is three miles from the ferry to Edgartown. The bridge now has bolted guard rails in the place where the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy’s car went off the bridge and into Poucha Pond in 1969. Marilyn Schairer / WGBH News