"is quoted in Chapter 32. The story parallels the 1969 Chappaquiddick accident, in which Mary Jo Kopechne drowned. As she shared in a ""New York Times"" interview, the author began taking notes for ""a novel"" in 1969, after Oates felt ""a horrified fascination and sympathy"" for the victim, who was in the car driven by Senator Edward Kennedy. (""But Ms. Oates insists 'Black Water' is not about Chappaquiddick per se. 'I wanted the story to be somewhat mythical, the almost archetypal experience of a young woman who trusts an older man and whose trust is violated.'"") ""Black Water"" was a"
"of sociolinguistics. The island received international notoriety after the ""Chappaquiddick incident"" of July 18, 1969, in which Mary Jo Kopechne was killed in a car driven off the Dike Bridge by U.S. Senator Edward ""Ted"" Kennedy. The bridge crossed Poucha Pond on Chappaquiddick Island (a smaller island formerly connected to the Vineyard and part of Edgartown). As a foot bridge, it was intended for people on foot and bicycles, as well as the occasional emergency vehicle when conditions warranted. Currently, 4×4 vehicles with passes are allowed to cross the reconstructed bridge. On November 23, 1970, in the Atlantic Ocean just"
"women, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. Driving a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88, he attempted to cross the Dike Bridge (which did not have a guardrail at that time). Kennedy lost control of his vehicle and crashed in the Poucha Pond inlet, which was a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island. Kennedy escaped from the overturned vehicle, and, by his description, dove below the surface seven or eight times, vainly attempting to reach and rescue Kopechne. Ultimately, he swam to shore and left the scene, with Kopechne still trapped inside the vehicle. Kennedy did not report the accident to authorities until the next"
"died in a single-occupant single-vehicle crash when he drove his vehicle straight into a concrete bridge embankment. The charges were dropped by the DOJ as a result of the death. In 2004, then CEO Aubrey McClendon contributed $450,000 to the campaign of Tom Corbett for attorney general of Pennsylvania. These funds were cited as the reason Corbett won the election, with a narrow margin. When Corbett eventually became governor of Pennsylvania, he was very supportive of Chesapeake's fracking activity in Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania was the only state without a severance tax on drillers, despite the fact that the budget for"
"and keys behind. Kennedy drove the 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 off a narrow, unlit bridge, which lacked guardrails and was not on the route to Edgartown. The Oldsmobile landed on its roof in Poucha Pond. Kennedy extricated himself from the vehicle and survived, but Kopechne did not. She died in the submerged vehicle, eight days shy of her 29th birthday. Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities until the car and Kopechne's body were discovered the next morning. Kopechne's parents said that they learned of their daughter's death from Kennedy, before he informed authorities of his involvement. They"
"learned Kennedy had been the driver from wire press releases some time later. A private funeral for Kopechne was held at St. Vincent's Roman Catholic Church in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, on July 22, 1969. The service was attended by Kennedy, his wife Joan, his sister-in-law Ethel, and hundreds of onlookers. Kopechne was buried in St. Vincent's Cemetery in Larksville, Pennsylvania, in the parish cemetery on the side of Larksville Mountain. She was among the fifth generation of her family interred in that cemetery. A week after the incident, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury."
"He received a two-month suspended sentence. On a national television broadcast that night, Kennedy said that he had not been driving ""under the influence of liquor"" nor had he ever had a ""private relationship"" with Kopechne. Massachusetts officials pressed for weeks to have Kopechne's body exhumed for an autopsy, but in December 1969 a Pennsylvania judge sided with the parents' request not to disturb her burial site. The Chappaquiddick incident and Kopechne's death became the topic of at least 15 books, as well as a fictionalized treatment by Joyce Carol Oates. Even among otherwise sympathetic, mainstream biographers, serious questions remained"
"crisis."" Kennedy lost the Democratic nomination to Carter, who lost the general election to Ronald Reagan by a landslide, but Kennedy remained a senator until his death in 2009. He won all seven elections for the US Senate after the incident. After Kennedy's death, ""New York Times Magazine"" editor Ed Klein stated that Kennedy asked people, ""Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?"" ""It's not that he didn't feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne,"" Klein argued, ""but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too."" The Dike"
"office, he promised to create jobs, cut wasteful government spending, prevent job-killing tax increases, eliminate the multiple-trillion dollars of U.S. debt, and fix the U.S. economy. On November 20, 2017, Robinson died at his Duxbury home. It was during this election that Robinson got a level of notoriety when he got into an automobile accident while conducting an interview on his cell phone. The NPR Car Talk show featuring this incident pointed out that Ted Kennedy wasn't the best driver either, referring to the Chappaquiddick incident. Robinson received 25.71% of the vote against incumbent Congressman Stephen Lynch. Robinson announced that"
"Court ordered the inquest to be conducted in secret. The presiding judge, James A. Boyle, concluded that some aspects of Kennedy's story of that night were not true, and that negligent driving ""appears to have contributed"" to the death of Kopechne. A grand jury on Martha's Vineyard conducted a two-day investigation in April 1970 but issued no indictment, after which Boyle made his inquest report public. Kennedy deemed its conclusions ""not justified."" Questions about the Chappaquiddick incident generated a large number of articles and books over the next several years. At the end of 1968, Kennedy had joined the new"
"to the danger; Kennedy reportedly observed, ""I know that I'm going to get my ass shot off one day, and I don't want to."" Indeed, there were a constant series of death threats made against Kennedy for much of the rest of his career. On the night of July 18, 1969, Kennedy was at Chappaquiddick Island on the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard. He was hosting a party that he gave for the Boiler Room Girls, a group of young women who had worked on his brother Robert's ill-fated 1968 presidential campaign. Kennedy left the party with one of the"
"leaders. Following the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968, the boiler room team wound up the campaign coordination work for which they had been responsible, before dispersing to work in other offices on Capitol Hill or elsewhere in Washington. They were variously described as ""frighteningly intelligent, politically astute, capable as all get-out"" as well as ""uniformly bright, efficient, fascinated by politics"". The group remained in contact and were brought together for several reunions prior to that on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, which ended with the death of ""boiler room"" team member MaryJo Kopechne. Six of the ""boiler"
"hotel. He was a very well-read man with an extensive library. He enjoyed a pint with his friends in his local, Carty’s in Dominick Street, and was an avid fisherman, the only survivor of a tragic boating accident on the Corrib when Bill Forde of the Skeffington Arms and Shane McNally drowned. He died in 1974 and was buried in Ross Errilly Abbey with full military honours. Joe Togher Joe Togher (8 September 1898 – 1974) was an Irish Republican. Togher's father was a shopkeeper in Headford, his mother was from Carlow, and they had three more sons and a"
"Chappaquiddick incident, in which she speculated that the victim of that incident, Mary Jo Kopechne, might have felt that the injustice of Kennedy's not facing jail time was ""worth it"" because it spurred Kennedy's later social justice work. The comment was attacked by the conservative media. Rush Limbaugh said on his show that it meant that ""liberal young women like to die for the cause of advancing Kennedys’ careers"" and Rick Moran in the ""American Thinker"" called the comment a ""kind of incredible, tone deaf, idiocy"". Lafsky responded by criticizing the right wing media for using out-of-context soundbites to stir"
"his role in it, but that other members of the Kennedy family had written letters to them. Their only child gone, they never felt that justice had really been done in the case. Kopechne's father died in a nursing home in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania in 2003. Her mother died in a nursing home in Plains Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 2007. In 2015, two cousins of Kopechne's in Pennsylvania self-published the book ""Our Mary Jo"", which sought to emphasize the impact of her life rather than discuss Kennedy or Chappaquiddick. It also includes some of the hundreds of condolence letters"
"successful mayoral campaign of Thomas J. Whelan in Jersey City, New Jersey. She was on her way to a successful professional career; one of the political professionals who worked with her in Jersey City characterized her as ""an exceptionally hard-working and skillful professional who knew her craft."" Kopechne lived with three other women in the Washington neighborhood of Georgetown. She was a fan of the Boston Red Sox and of fellow Polish-American Carl Yastrzemski. She was a devout Roman Catholic with a demure, serious, ""convent school"" demeanor and rarely drank much. On July 18, 1969, Kopechne attended a party on"
"say that Mary Jo was still alive."" The three men subsequently crossed back to Chappaquiddick Island on the ferry, where Kennedy made a series of telephone calls from a pay telephone near the ferry crossing—the same pay phone that the three men had stood by approximately six hours earlier discussing Kennedy's options. Kennedy called friends and lawyers for advice, however, instead of notifying the authorities that he was the operator of the vehicle which was still upside down near Dike bridge. He called Helga Wagner, John V. Tunney, and others that morning, but he still did not report the accident"
"her sitting in the passenger seat. Jack Olsen had advanced a similar theory in his book ""The Bridge at Chappaquiddick"", published early in 1970 and the first full-length examination of the case. Kopechne was , a foot shorter than Kennedy, and Olsen argued that she might possibly not have seen the bridge, as she drove Kennedy's car over unfamiliar roads at night, with no external lighting and after she had consumed several alcoholic drinks. He wrote that Kopechne normally drove a smaller Volkswagen model car, which was much lighter and easier to handle than Kennedy's larger Oldsmobile. The case evoked"
"regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately,"" but he denied driving under the influence of alcohol and also denied any immoral conduct between him and Kopechne. Kennedy asked the Massachusetts electorate whether he should stay in office or resign; after getting a favorable response in messages sent to him, Kennedy announced on July 30 that he would remain in the Senate and run for re-election the next year. In January 1970, an inquest into Kopechne's death was held in Edgartown, Massachusetts. At the request of Kennedy's lawyers, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial"
"who had previously served as the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. Attorney Charles Tretter was a Kennedy advisor; Raymond La Rosa had known Kennedy for about 8 or 10 years and had diving experience. Kennedy's 63-year-old chauffeur John B. Crimmins also attended the party. All the men were married except Crimmins. During the inquest into Kopechne's death, Kennedy testified that he left the party at approximately 11:15 p.m. When he announced that he was about to leave, he claimed that Mary Jo told him ""that she was desirous of leaving"" and asked him ""if I would be kind enough to drop"
"Edgartown and of ""going to America"" when (for example) they travel to Boston or Cape Cod. Access to the island is served by privately owned barge-like ferries named the ""On Time II"" and ""On Time III"" which shuttle pedestrians, bicycles, and up to three cars at a time between Chappaquiddick and Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard. Two ferries run during the summer months and one during the off-season. Oversand access is possible with four-wheel drive vehicles on the south shore when the islands are connected and conditions permit. Events at Chappaquiddick Island gained international attention on July 19, 1969, when the"
"simultaneously went to where the ""Boiler Room Girls"" were staying to inform them about the incident. Kennedy entered the police station in Edgartown at 10 a.m., made a couple more telephone calls, and then dictated a statement to his aide Paul Markham, which Markham hand wrote and gave to the police. The statement read: On July 18, 1969, at approximately 11:15 p.m. in Chappaquiddick, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, I was driving my car on Main Street on my way to get the ferry back to Edgartown. I was unfamiliar with the road and turned right onto Dike Road, instead of bearing"
"late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District. Family incidents led Ted to question in a televised statement about the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, whether there was a ""Kennedy curse."" In 1941, Rosemary underwent a lobotomy intended to curb behavioral and emotional issues, but the operation left her incapacitated; Joseph Jr. died in 1944 when the Navy bomber he was piloting during World War II exploded in flight; Kathleen died in a plane crash in France in 1948; and John and Robert were both assassinated in 1963 and 1968. In"
"to his defense team, which helped improve the president's fortunes. In the trial after the 1999 impeachment of Bill Clinton, Kennedy voted to acquit Clinton on both charges, saying ""Republicans in the House of Representatives, in their partisan vendetta against the President, have wielded the impeachment power in precisely the way the framers rejected, recklessly and without regard for the Constitution or the will of the American people."" On July 16, 1999, Kennedy's nephew John F. Kennedy, Jr. was killed when his Piper Saratoga light aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. John Jr.'s wife"
"Honor and a veteran of both World Wars. Other victims included a vice president of the Continental Bank of Cuba, a pharmacist, a student at the University of Miami, and an insurance adjuster. Three of the victims had been standby passengers and only made the flight due to others cancelling their reservations. The only body not found at the main crash site was that of Julian Frank, a New York City lawyer. His body was recovered from Snow's Marsh, located on the west side of the Cape Fear River. Frank's body had sustained significant injuries, including the amputation of both"
"with her husband and two children. Mary Z. Connaughton Mary Zarrilli Connaughton (born Mary Gina Zarrilli August 3, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a former board member of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Connaughton was a candidate for Massachusetts Auditor in 2010. Connaughton started her political career in 2004 as a Republican candidate for state representative in the Seventh Middlesex District of Massachusetts. She lost that open-seat race to then Ashland School Board member Tom Sannicandro. In September 2005, Connaughton was appointed by Governor Mitt Romney to the board of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. There, Connaughton has gained notoriety as an"
"election, Caroline Thorpe was killed in a car crash. For the rest of 1970 and for much of 1971, Thorpe was preoccupied with his loss and his plan for a permanent memorial to Caroline. Meanwhile, the party began to recover, chiefly through its adoption of ""community politics""—engagement with local rather than national issues—and achieved modest gains in the 1971 local elections. By early 1972, with the monument to Caroline erected on Codden Hill, Thorpe was fully re-engaged in political life. In February he assisted the passage through the House of Commons of Heath's European Communities Bill, approving the United Kingdom's"
"and the ashes scattered from an airplane flying over his estate on Eastern Point in Gloucester. In 1953, a bridge carrying Massachusetts Route 128 over the Annisquam River to the island section of Gloucester was named the ""A. Piatt Andrew Bridge"" in honor of his service as a congressman. Retrieved on 2008-03-18 A. Piatt Andrew Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. (February 12, 1873 – June 3, 1936) was an economist, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, the founder and director of the American Ambulance Field Service during World War I, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts."
"in which the British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, was killed in 1976. The car in which the party was travelling was blown up by a bomb concealed in a culvert under the road. Cubbon's Private Secretary, Judith Cooke, was also killed, and the driver, Brian O'Driscoll, was injured. He died of a heart attack on 20 May 2015 at the age of 87. Brian Cubbon Sir Brian Crossland Cubbon GCB (9 April 1928 – 20 May 2015) was a British senior civil servant and a member of the Charter Compliance Panel of the Press Complaints Commission. Cubbon was educated"
"a director of the West Jersey Railroad Co., serving as secretary and treasurer in 1853 and as president 1866-1875; also president of the Cape May & Millville Railroad Co.; served as director at various times of the Swedesborough Railroad Co., Salem Railroad Co., Camden & Philadelphia Ferry Co., and West Jersey Marl & Transportation Co. He died in Salem, New Jersey on April 4, 1882, and was there interred in St. John's Episcopal Cemetery. Thomas Jones Yorke Thomas Jones Yorke (March 25, 1801 – April 4, 1882) was a US Whig Party politician. He was born at Hancock's Bridge, New"
"prepared statement about the incident which was broadcast live by the television networks. He said that: Kennedy then asked the people of Massachusetts to decide whether he should resign: He concluded by quoting a passage from his brother John's book ""Profiles in Courage"". John Farrar was the captain of the Edgartown Fire Rescue unit and the diver who recovered Kopechne's body. He alleged that Kopechne died from suffocation rather than from drowning or from the impact of the overturned vehicle. This hypothesis was based upon the posture in which he found the body and the body's position relative to an"
"had been found in his London lodgings, having apparently taken his life with an overdose of chlorodyne. It was several days before his identity emerged. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. James Lloyd Ashbury James Lloyd Ashbury (1834 – 3 September 1895) was a British yachtsman and Conservative Party politician. The son of John Ashbury, founder of the Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd of Manchester, James trained as an engineer and joined the family company. When his father died in 1866 he inherited the business and a considerable fortune. His health was affected by the polluted atmosphere"
"serious fault on your part"" and so his driver's license was suspended for a further six months. Kennedy's wife Joan was pregnant at the time of the incident. She was confined to bed because of two previous miscarriages, but she attended Kopechne's funeral and stood beside Ted in court three days later. Soon after, she suffered a third miscarriage, which she blamed on the Chappaquiddick incident. A BBC ""Inside Story"" episode titled ""Chappaquiddick"" was broadcast on the 25th anniversary of Kopechne's death. It advanced a theory that Kennedy and Kopechne had left the party in Kennedy's car, but Kennedy saw"