Senetor Edward "Ted" Kennedy dies at 77 after a long battle with cancer. Kennedy died late yesterday at his home in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod. A malignant brain tumor was diagnosed in May 2008 and doctors operated on it the following month.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) was the last of an American political dynasty, alongside his brothers John and Robert. He served more than four decades in the Senate and led a life of triumph and tragedy.
The Chappaquiddick scandal was undoubtedly the darkest scandal in Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's life and one that most likely denied him the presidency, linked to the death of a young woman from Pennsylvania. Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old secretary, was leaving a party with Kennedy on July 18, 1969, when the senator drove his car off the side of a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. Kopechne was found dead in the submerged car the next morning. Kennedy, unable to explain how he escaped the vehicle, did not report the incident to police until after Kopechne's body was discovered.
The senator's family announced his death Wednesday morning, stating "we've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives."
The senator spent his final 15 months working on his memoir, sailing and talking about his career's signature issue, health-care reform.
Edward M. Kennedy's final resting place will be close to the famed gravesites of his slain brothers at Arlington National Cemetery.
There goes the last of the Kennedy dynasty. Our prayers go out to the Kennedy family.
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