Skeptics said he also knew he could not fight the undertow of Chappaquiddick.

怀疑论者却说，这是因为他也明白，查帕奎迪克事件的影响会卷土重来，而他无法摆脱这种恶劣影响。

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A flat-topped boat called the On-Time Ferry takes people and cars to a nearby small island,Chappaquiddick.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

He drove a car off a low bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Senator Kennedy drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

But a July 18, 1969, car wreck on Chappaquiddick Island virtually ended his ambitions.

CNN: Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy dies after cancer battle

It was four years after the Edward Kennedy tragedy at Chappaquiddick, and the accident provoked a media frenzy.

NEWYORKER: Changing Times

He sat out the races in 1972 (too soon after Chappaquiddick) and 1976 (his son was recovering from cancer).

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