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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Persons: Ted Kennedy, Sen, Edward M, Kennedy, Ted Dully Organizations: Boston Globe, Washington Post, Herald Tribune, The New York Times Locations: The