After the crash, Ted Kennedy publicly referenced the idea of a family curse for the first time.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy leaves a courthouse in 1969, after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Ted Dully/The Boston Globe/Getty ImagesDuring his televised apology a week after the crash, Ted Kennedy said he had wondered "whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys," The Washington Post reported.
It marked the first time a member of the Kennedy family openly spoke about the reported "Kennedy curse," the Herald Tribune reported.
"I was overcome, I'm frank to say, by a jumble of emotions: grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion, and shock."
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