Chappaquiddick Island
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Chappaquiddick Island is an island and occasional peninsula off the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard. Norton Point, a narrow barrier beach, connects Martha's Vineyard and Chappaquiddick between Katama
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Toms Neck Road on Chappaquiddick Island
The area between Norton Point, Edgartown (in the distance) and Wepua Point, Chappaquiddick (foreground). This was the 2022 to 2023 breach, opening up Katama Bay to the Atlantic Ocean to the south (left).
The On Time III shuttling passengers between mainland Martha's Vineyard and Chappaquiddick
Mary Jo Kopechne
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Mary Jo Kopechne was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the "Boiler Room Girls". In 1969, she
Chappaquiddick Island
…name in 1969, when U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy accidentally drove his car off the island's Dike Bridge into Poucha Pond. Kennedy's 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, suffocated inside the car. The name Chappaquiddick comes from a Native American word "cheppiaquidne" meaning "separated island", so named because this…
1962 college yearbook portrait