Chappaquiddick Island (/ˌtʃæpəˈkwɪdɪk/ CHAP-uh-KWID-ik; Massachusett language: Noepetchepi-aquidenet; colloquially known as "Chappy”) is a peninsula and...
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The Chappaquiddick incident occurred on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, United States, sometime around midnight, between July 18 and 19, 1969, when...
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Chappaquiddick, sometimes known as The Senator, is a 2017 American political drama film directed by John Curran, and written by Taylor Allen and Andrew...
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a car driven by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy left a narrow road on Chappaquiddick Island and overturned into Poucha Pond after they had left a party. According...
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Chappaquiddick may refer to: Chappaquiddick Island, a small island on the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard Chappaquiddick incident, Ted Kennedy's July...
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1969, Ted Kennedy was involved in a car accident at a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts that resulted in the death of his passenger, Mary...
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received national media exposure from the infamous Chappaquiddick incident in 1969. It was in Chappaquiddick that Mary Jo Kopechne died in a car crash, in...
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includes Chappaquiddick Island, a peninsula accessible by ferry. In 1642, Rev. Thomas Mayhew, Jr. led a group of families to start a colony on the island after...
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1969 – Ted Kennedy accidentally drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, resulting in the drowning death of 28-year-old passenger...
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Martha's Vineyard (category Cape Cod and the Islands)
summer colony, and includes the smaller peninsula Chappaquiddick Island. It is the 58th largest island in the U.S., with a land area of about 96 square...
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Tombolo (redirect from Tombola (island))
connecting the main island and two smaller outcrops) Chappaquiddick Island, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States Charles Island, Connecticut, United...
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Dukes County, Massachusetts (section Named Islands)
The county consists of 32 named islands, the largest of which is Martha's Vineyard. It also includes Chappaquiddick Island (sometimes peninsula of the Vineyard)...
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Joseph Gargan (section Chappaquiddick)
Markham, in whom Ted Kennedy chose to confide immediately after the Chappaquiddick automobile accident which killed Mary Jo Kopechne. Orphaned at the age...
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Paul F. Markham (section Chappaquiddick incident)
Edward M. Kennedy, in whom Kennedy confided most closely during the Chappaquiddick incident. Markham, along with Kennedy's cousin Joseph Gargan, participated...
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List of New England hurricanes (redirect from Hurricanes in Rhode Island)
one-minute sustained wind speed of 110 mph (177 km/h) was recorded on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Several private anemometers in Falmouth, Massachusetts...
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Ted Kennedy (section Chappaquiddick incident)
full six-year term in 1964 and was re-elected seven more times. The Chappaquiddick incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger,...
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The Chappaquiddick Tribe of the Wampanoag Indian Nation is a non-profit organization in Massachusetts that self-identifies as a Native American tribe,...
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Edgartown, Massachusetts came to the scene of an automobile accident on Chappaquiddick Island, and found the body of 27-year old secretary Mary Jo Kopechne inside...
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S. 1969 – Chappaquiddick incident, where Sen. Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts...
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Wampanoag (redirect from Pocasset Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts and Rhode Island)
were three reservations—Chappaquiddick, Christiantown and Gay Head. The Chappaquiddick Reservation was part of a small island of the same name and was...
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drowned in Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile Delta 88 in a car accident off of Chappaquiddick Island in mid-July 1969. Albert Ayler, jazz musician, suspected suicide...
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Dukes County, Massachusetts. It is located on Martha's Vineyard on Chappaquiddick Island, .8 miles (1.3 km) south of Edgartown in the Town of Edgartown....
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(1975). Ted Kennedy (D-MA) drove his car into the channel between Chappaquiddick Island and Martha's Vineyard, killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy...
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Chaubunagungamaug: (Nipmuck-Mohegan) "boundary fishing place" Chappaquiddick Island: (Wampanoag) "separated island" Congamond Lake (on Connecticut border – Congamuck...
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Edgartown Yacht Club (category Chappaquiddick Island)
July 18, 1969. that Mary Jo Kopechne was found drowned at Dike Bridge, Chappaquiddick, through the negligent driving of EYC member Edward M. Kennedy. Olympic...
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Chappaquiddick incident. Mary Jo Kopechne was killed when a car driven by US Senator Ted Kennedy crashed off the Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island...
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died following a car accident in the vehicle of Ted Kennedy at Chappaquiddick Island. Kopechne was presumed to have died from drowning after Kennedy's...
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Robert McNamara. 1969 – Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing...
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mountain in Dukes County, Massachusetts. It is on Martha's Vineyard on Chappaquiddick Island, 2.6 miles (4.2 km) southeast of Edgartown in the Town of Edgartown...
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novelist Mary Jo Kopechne (1940–1969), political aide who drowned off Chappaquiddick Island when Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) drove his car off a bridge on...
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