"I'm not convinced the mystery has been solved," Mary Jo Kopechne's cousin tells PEOPLE. "I know there are things that we do not know about what happened that night" It’s a mystery that’s lasted for ...

PEOPLE's East Coast Editor Elizabeth McNeil spent eight months investigating what really happened on the tiny Massachusetts island of Chappaquiddick on July 18, 1969 PEOPLE’s first-ever podcast, Cover ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservative media tends to be mind-bending in its selectivity. It will rush to attack a Kennedy or a Clinton (or anyone who works ...

If you lived through the 1960s, no one has to tell you what the word “Chappaquiddick” means. It’s an island off the coast of Massachusetts where, on July 18, 1969, Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts ...

This weekend my lovely bride Buttercup and I finally saw the new “Chappaquiddick” movie. When it was over, my wife — who’s not a politico and only knew the general outlines of the story — was ...

Warning label: Reenactments aren’t the truth. Movies based on actual events, especially those to which there were no independent witnesses, are works of speculation and dramatic jiggery-pokery, and to ...

Are audiences experiencing scandal fatigue? With the news dominated by various Trump-related controversies and squabbles, John Curran’s upcoming drama “Chappaquiddick,” which centers on failed ...

When Ted Kennedy’s car plunged off a bridge on the Massachusetts island of Chappaquiddick in July 1969, killing fellow passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, it resulted in a political scandal and a mystery over ...

A meticulous docudrama rivetingly recounts the tragic car accident and its aftermath — an event of criminal negligence and cover-up — that defined the life of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Over the years, a ...