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Politics : Teddy Kennedy Today -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (510)	3/5/2006 7:14:35 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 729

Father of Kennedy scandal victim dies Interesting phrasing in the title. Mary Jo Kopechne wasn't the victim of a Kennedy scandal. She was a victim of a Kennedy. Pocono Record ^ \| 1/1/2004 \| ERIN DOOLITTLE poconorecord.com EAST STROUDSBURG — The father of Mary Jo Kopechne died in Stroud Manor 34 years after his daughter was killed in one of the most notorious scandals to plague the Kennedy family. Joseph Kopechne was 90 years old when he died on Christmas Eve. He is survived by his wife of more than 60 years, Gwen. The Kopechnes moved to Swiftwater and later East Stroudsburg four years after their daughter's death in 1969. Mary Jo Kopechne was the passenger in a car driven by Sen. Edward Kennedy on Chappaquidick Island, Mass., on July 19, 1969, when the car ran off a bridge into Poucha Pond. Kennedy escaped the accident and Kopechne drowned. The accident happened shortly after the pair left a party together sometime after 11 p.m. The circumstances surrounding the accident — the party guests were six married men (including Kennedy) and six unmarried women; Kennedy failed to report the accident — sullied his reputation and ended his plans to run for president in the next election. He did eventually run, in 1980, and lost in the Democratic primary to Jimmy Carter. Mary Jo Kopechne is buried in Saint Vincent's Cemetery in Larksville, Luzerne County. Joseph Kopechne was born in Forty-Fort, near Wilkes-Barre.