Chappaquiddick incident

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/chappaquiddick-incident

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the location of incident?Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, USA
2. What is the date of incident?Night of July 18-19, 1969
3. What happened on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969?Senator Ted Kennedy was driving a car with Mary Jo Kopechne. He took a wrong turn, the car went off a narrow bridge and fell into a pond. Mary Jo Kopechne died in the accident.
4. Why was the accident so famous?It made many people wonder about Kennedy's choices and it changed his chances of becoming president.

Judicial Inquest: A formal judicial inquiry to ascertain facts, often preceding criminal charges.
Negligently: Failing to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances.
Recklessly: Acting with conscious disregard of a substantial and unjustifiable risk.