You’d Think They’d Know Better, But These Politicians Committed The Wildest Crimes Of The 20th Century

Is Ted Kennedy Technically Responsible For Murder?

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U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, JFK’s youngest brother, was involved in the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969. Kennedy and a woman named Mary Jo Kopechne were driving home from a party when he accidentally drove his car off a one-lane bridge and into a tidal channel. Kennedy allegedly tried in vain to save Kopechne before he himself swam to safety. For some reason, he didn’t report the accident to police for ten hours and Kopechne ended up dying in the car, which was submerged in water. Kennedy was charged with leaving the scene of a crash and causing personal injury and only received a two-month suspended jail sentence.