Chappaquidick had it's 40th anniversary this July. It happened back in that same summer of '69 - the summer of Woodstock, the summer of the first moonwalk.
That night, Ted Kennedy and the young lady were in his car. He drove it off a bridge, into a pond.
He got of the car. She didn't.
He went back to his hotel. He spoke to some people - but not about the accident.
A couple of fishermen found the car in the water next morning. Only then did Kennedy go to the police.
It's possible she was alive in the car for a while. They found her in an air pocket in the upside down car.
People keep calling Ted Kennedy a "lion" today. In many ways, no doubt, he was. But not that night.
That night was heard no lion's roar.
Weasely silence. Nothing more.
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