Which U.S. senator's chances at becoming president were sideswiped by a scandalous car accident that became known as the Chappaquiddick incident?

In July of 1969, 28-year-old campaign worker, Mary Jo Kopechne, died in a car crash off a bridge to Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Ted Kennedy, a presidential hopeful, was driving the car on the night in question. While the accident was just that, an accident, the incident was so scandalous not only because Kennedy was married, but because he let ten hours pass between the crash and filing a police report.

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