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Mary Jo Kopechne

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Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) was an American teacher, secretary, and political campaign specialist who died in a car accident at Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969, while she was a passenger in a car being driven by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. [1]

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Ace Books

Ace Books is an American specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Asphyxia

Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing.

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Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight PDT at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atlantic Media

Atlantic Media is an American print and online media company owned by David G. Bradley and based in the Watergate in Washington, D.C. The company publishes several prominent news magazines and digital publications including The Atlantic, Quartz, Government Executive, Defense One and those belonging to its National Journal Group subsidiary: National Journal, The Hotline, National Journal Daily (previously known as Congress Daily), and Technology Daily.

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Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

Berkeley Heights is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

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Black Water (novella)

Black Water is a 1992 novella by Joyce Carol Oates.

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Boiler Room Girls

The "Boiler Room Girls" were a team of female staff members who worked in Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign.

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Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Business administration

Business administration is management of a business.

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Caldwell University

Caldwell University (formerly Caldwell College and originally Caldwell College for Women) is a Catholic liberal arts university in Caldwell, New Jersey, United States.

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Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill, in addition to being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues.

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Carl Yastrzemski

Carl Michael Yastrzemski (nicknamed "Yaz"; born August 22, 1939) is an American former Major League Baseball player.

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Catcher

Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chappaquiddick (film)

Chappaquiddick, also known as The Senator (UK), is a 2017 American drama film directed by John Curran and written by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan.

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Chappaquiddick incident

The Chappaquiddick incident was a single-vehicle car accident that occurred on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, on Friday, The late night accident was caused by Senator Ted Kennedy's negligence, and resulted in the death of his 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, who was trapped inside According to his testimony, Kennedy accidentally drove his car off the one-lane bridge and into the tide-swept Poucha Pond.

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Chappaquiddick Island

Chappaquiddick Island (Massachusett language: Noepetchepi-aquidenet; colloquially known as "Chappy"), a part of the town of Edgartown, Massachusetts, is a small peninsula and occasional island on the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Drowning

Drowning is defined as respiratory impairment from being in or under a liquid.

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East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

East Stroudsburg is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Edgartown, Massachusetts

Edgartown is a town located on Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Ethel Kennedy

Ethel Skakel Kennedy (born April 11, 1928) is an American human-rights campaigner and widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Fort Scott Tribune

The Fort Scott Tribune is a daily newspaper serving Fort Scott, Kansas, United States, owned by Rust Communications since 2004.

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Forty Fort, Pennsylvania

Forty Fort is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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George McGovern

George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.

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George Smathers

George Armistead Smathers (November 14, 1913 – January 20, 2007) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Florida in the United States Senate for eighteen years, from 1951 until 1969, as a member of the Democratic Party.

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Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)

Georgetown is a historic neighborhood and a commercial and entertainment district located in northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River.

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Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Hazleton is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Hickory Hill (McLean, Virginia)

Hickory Hill is a large brick house in McLean, Virginia, in the United States, owned for many years by the Kennedy family.

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Hit and run

In traffic laws, a hit-and-run is the act of causing a traffic accident and not stopping afterwards.

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Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is the second-most-populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.

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Joan Bennett Kennedy

Virginia Joan Kennedy (neé Bennett, born September 2, 1936) is an American socialite, musician, author, and former model, and was the first wife of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.

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Kennedy family

The Kennedy family is an American political family that has long been prominent in American politics, public service, and business.

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Larksville, Pennsylvania

Larksville is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Lodi News-Sentinel

The Lodi News-Sentinel is a daily newspaper based in Lodi, California, United States and serving northern San Joaquin and southern Sacramento counties.

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Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Luzerne County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Martha's Vineyard

Martha's Vineyard (Wampanoag: Noepe; often called just the Vineyard) is an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts that is known for being an affluent summer colony.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Medscape

Medscape is a website providing access to medical information for clinicians; the organization also provides continuing education for physicians and health professionals.

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Misericordia University

Misericordia University is a four-year, Catholic, co-educational liberal arts university located on a campus in Dallas, Pennsylvania, near the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton within the Diocese of Scranton.

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Montgomery Advertiser

The Montgomery Advertiser is a daily newspaper and news website located in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Parochial school

A parochial school is a private primary or secondary school affiliated with a religious organization, and whose curriculum includes general religious education in addition to secular subjects, such as science, mathematics and language arts.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Peter H. Dominick

Peter Hoyt Dominick (July 7, 1915 – March 18, 1981) was an American diplomat, politician and lawyer from Colorado.

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Plains Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Plains Township is a township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, on the outskirts of the city of Wilkes-Barre.

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Plymouth, Pennsylvania

Plymouth is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, west of Wilkes-Barre (along the Susquehanna River).

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Polish Americans

Polish Americans are Americans who have total or partial Polish ancestry.

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Political consulting

Political consulting is a form of consulting that consists primarily of advising and assisting political campaigns.

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Politico

Politico, known earlier as The Politico, is an American political journalism company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Regnery Publishing

Regnery Publishing is a conservative book publisher based in Washington, D.C. An imprint of Salem Media Group, it is led by president Marji Ross.

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Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator for New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.

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Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign, 1968

The Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign began on March 16, 1968, when Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK), a U.S. Senator from New York who had won a Senate seat in 1964, entered an unlikely primary election as a challenger to incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ).

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Softball

Softball is a variant of baseball played with a larger ball (11 in. to 12 in. sized ball) on a smaller field.

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Stephen McNichols

Stephen Lucid Robert McNichols (March 7, 1914 – November 25, 1997) was Colorado's 35th Governor from 1957 to 1963.

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Suspended sentence

A suspended sentence is a legal term for a judge's delaying of a defendant's serving of a sentence after they have been found guilty, in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation.

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Swiftwater, Pennsylvania

Swiftwater is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Ted Kennedy

Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009.

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Ted Sorensen

Theodore Chaikin "Ted" Sorensen (May 8, 1928 – October 31, 2010) was an American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser.

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The Almanac of American Politics

The Almanac of American Politics is a reference work published biennially by Columbia Books & Information Services.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Detroit News

The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States.

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The Star-Ledger

The Star-Ledger is the largest circulated newspaper in the U.S. state of New Jersey and is based in Newark.

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Thomas J. Whelan

Thomas J. Whelan (January 28, 1922 – July 31, 2002) was an American mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Times Leader

The Times Leader is a privately owned newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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Town & Country (magazine)

Town & Country, formerly the Home Journal and The National Press, is a monthly American lifestyle magazine.

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True Compass

True Compass is the posthumous memoir of United States Senator Edward M. Kennedy that was released September 14, 2009, by Twelve, a division of the Hachette book group.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century.

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United States presidential election, 1968

The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Luzerne County.

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William Morrow and Company

William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926.

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Wyoming Valley

The Wyoming Valley is a historic industrialized region of Northeastern Pennsylvania once famous for fueling the industrial revolution in the United States with its many anthracite coal mines.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne

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