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Ad for ‘Chappaquiddick’ to debut on CNN’s ‘The Kennedys’

By Paul Bedard
Published March 8, 2018 1:47pm ET
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Ad for ‘Chappaquiddick’ to debut on CNN’s ‘The Kennedys’
This July 22, 1969 file photograph shows U.S. Sen Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., arriving back at his home in Hyannisport, Mass., after attending the funeral of Mary Jo Kopechne in Pennsylvania. A new feature film is in the works about the tragedy on the small Massachusetts island nearly a half century ago that rocked the Kennedy political dynasty. Kopechne drowned when a car driven by Kennedy went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick, a small island in Edgartown, Mass., on the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard on July 18, 1969. (AP Photo/Frank C. Curtin) | Frank C. Curtin

The new and disturbing movie “Chappaquiddick,” about the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s July 1969 car crash that left Mary Jo Kopechne dead, is set to debut on CNN’s “American Dynasties: The Kennedys” this weekend.

The movie, which reopens the scandal and Kennedy’s failure to save Kopechne or immediately call in the nighttime wreck, has already drawn new controversy, even from her family who were given a private screening last month.

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