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The dramatization of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick is based upon Ted Kennedy's statements made later. Most likely, Ted Kennedy was not in that car. He and Mary Joe were parked somewhere, doing things they shouldn't be doing, and Ted was spooked by what he thought might be a police cars headlights coming down the road. Ted jumps out of the car into the ditch and hides, after telling Mary Joe to drive down the road and then eventually come back and pick him up. Mary Joe did with Ted told her to do, but, being unfamiliar with the area, drove off the bridge and into the pond. Meanwhile, Ted gives up waiting for her and walks back to the party. He knows nothing about the accident, which is why he didn't report it for 10 hours until after his car was found with a dead woman inside of it. The best story the Kennedys could come up with was that Ted was driving Mary Jo to the ferry when the accident happened. That doesn't explain why Ted waited so long to report the incident, or why Mary Joe left her pocketbook and did not tell her friends at the party she was going home, and why she wasn't wearing panties when her body was found.