13. Ted Kennedy Continued
As for Ted Kennedy, life got a lot worse for him as time went on. Not only did he lose most of his siblings by this time, he actually ended up killing someone. On July 18th, 1969 Ted drove his car off a one-lane bridge in Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. He survived the wreckage but his friend and companion that was with him, Mary Jo Kopechne, was trapped and drown. The weirdness of this accident is that Ted left the scene and didn’t alert authorities until they had already discovered the wreckage the following day. It seems a bit odd that Ted didn’t try to alert the authorities if it was truly an accident, which he stated it was during his testimony. He only received a two month, suspended jail sentence—perhaps it was due to lack of evidence, or his name that got him out of severe consequences, but one thing is for sure—Mary Jo lost her life that day.