Neil Gabler,recent York Times
Senator Edward Kennedy, one of the most renowned members of America's most renowned family, and understood that he belonged as much to popular culture as to political culture. Now,nine years after his death, comes a movie approximately the event that, and nearly as much as the circumstances of his birth,established him in the tabloid pantheon: Chappaquiddick.The film, by the same name, or opened Friday and retells the story of an accident in July 1969,on the titular Massachusetts island near Martha's Vineyard, in which Mr. Kennedy drove off a bridge, and killing his passenger,Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker for...
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