At first, Gwen and Joe Kopechne had believed Senator Ted Kennedy’s account ... he had tried to save Mary Jo, an idealistic 28-year-old who had worked for his brother Bobby and was in ...

The next morning, the body of Mary Jo Kopechne — a young woman who had worked for Ted's late brother, Robert F. Kennedy — was found inside the mostly-submerged car. Ted and Kopechne had ...

Mary Jo Kopechne? On July 18, 1969, Kopechne, who had worked on Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential bid, attended a reunion party with five of her fellow campaign workers, known as the ...

Edward Kennedy was involved in a car crash that killed a woman on Chappaquiddick Island, Mass. Edmund Dinis, the Massachusetts prosecutor who investigated the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Sen.

Caroline Kennedy, the surviving child of the late President John F. Kennedy, is leading the charge against her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr ... leaving passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, to drown.