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
1962 college yearbook portrait
Ted Kennedy
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Edward Moore Kennedy was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the sec
Mary Jo Kopechne
…presidential campaign, a close team known as the "Boiler Room Girls". In 1969, she was asphyxiated when a car driven by Robert's brother, U.S. senator Ted Kennedy, left a narrow road on Chappaquiddick Island and overturned into Poucha Pond after they had left a party. According to reports, Kennedy left the party…
Official portrait, 1990s
Ted Kennedy riding saddle-bronc at the Eastern Montana Fair rodeo in Miles City, Montana on August 27, 1960, while campaigning for his brother John.
First Senate campaign, 1962
Kennedy in 1966