The film "Chappaquiddick" distorts a tragedy

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7. Mary Jo's been dead nearly fifty years and Ted's been gone nearly ten

Nobody is left who could tell us exactly how it happened

One dark night, he drove off an unsafe narrow old bridge, almost before he was completely on it, perhaps for no reason except it was angled to the road on the shore and still without guardrails then, though rails were added later, and the car sank in the water

So it was a tragedy, like every other death in an automotive accident -- there have been at least a million and a half, maybe two million, of those in the years since then