On July 19, 1969 an auto accident, involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the death of a young woman, changed the course of American political history forever.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 1968 Edward Kennedy, campaigning in 1962 John Farrar examining the Kennedy automobile as it is being removed from the water near Dike Bridge Ted Kennedy during nationwide speech following the Chappaquiddick accident District Attorney Edmund Dinis Edgartown Police Chief Dominick “Jim” Arena, later in life