Following her death on Oct. 8, 2025, PEOPLE examines the impact of the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident on Joan Bennett Kennedy, the first wife of Sen. Ted Kennedy At 37 years old, Joan was the subject of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 55 years ago, Ted Kennedy was enmeshed in a fatal car accident that would haunt him until his death Ted Dully/The Boston Globe via ...

In 1969, Ted Kennedy drove his car off of a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, plummeting into a tidal channel below. He managed to escape the wreck alive, but, trapped inside the car, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Almost a decade after U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy died, director John Curran has made a film that tries to get into his mind during the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident that dogged ...

The “Kennedy Curse” refers to a long string of deaths, accidents, and calamities that have struck the Kennedy family—America’s most renowned political dynasty—starting with the generation of Joseph P.

Years before Watergate, the name Chappaquiddick became shorthand for political scandal. While the world was celebrating the 1969 moon landing by Apollo 11 astronauts — the legacy of John Kennedy’s ...

There is a lot of ruckus being raised in the blogosphere regarding Ed Klein’s comments remembering that Ted Kennedy liked to joke about the horrific Chappaquiddick incident. I don’t know if you know ...

LOS ANGELES — Jason Clarke plunged into frigid waters, repeatedly, for his role as the late Sen. Ted Kennedy in “Chappaquiddick.” The Australian actor said his research about the accident that ...