Chappaquiddick behavior 'inexcusable': Kennedy memoirUS senator Edward Kennedy expressed regret over his "inexcusable" behavior in the 1969 car crash that killed a campaign worker in a memoir to be published posthumously, the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times reported Thursday. The crash, in which Mary Jo Kopechne Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) was an American teacher, secretary and administrator, notable for her death in a car accident on Chappaquiddick Island in a car driven by Senator Ted Kennedy. died when Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick island, Massachusetts, and the subsequent scandal, effectively destroyed Kennedy's presidential hopes. He lost the Democratic nomination to incumbent Jimmy Carter in 1980. In "True Compass," a memoir that goes on sale on September 14, the last of the four Kennedy brothers admitted he "made terrible decisions" when he left the scene of the accident. Kennedy, who did not report the accident to police until Kopechne's body was recovered the following day, said the events may have also shortened the life of his then-ailing father, Joseph Kennedy, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Times, which obtained a copy of the memoir published by Twelve. The Times said the account by Kennedy, who died aged 77 on August 25 after a battle with brain cancer, did not provide new details on the accident but rather reflected on how it impacted him and his family. The 532-page book also delved into the senator's drinking and philandering episodes, as well as his relationship with his family, including his decision to not run for the presidency in 1984 after hearing objections from his children. Kennedy's children, the book says, feared for his life in the wake of the assassinations of his older brothers -- president John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in and senator Robert (Bobby) Kennedy. The eldest brother -- pilot Joe Kennedy Junior -- died during a World War II bombing mission. Kennedy, the youngest of the nine Kennedy children of whom only one sister, Jean, now survives, said he did not question the official findings of the Warren Commission Warren Commission, popular name given to the U.S. Commission to Report upon the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, established (Nov. 29, 1963) by executive order of President Lyndon B. Johnson. on JFK's assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. that gunman Lee Harvey Oswald Noun 1. Lee Harvey Oswald - United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963) Oswald alone was responsible for the killing. He also wrote about his "self-destructive drinking," especially after Bobby's death. The tragedy, he said, initially left him unable to return to the Senate, where he eventually served a 47-year tenure. 
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