Twenty-five years ago this week, a car belonging to Senator Edward Kennedy was found upturned in water by a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island. Inside was the body of Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy's behaviour after the crash was evasive and secretive and many theories have been put forward about his involvement with her death. It is still unclear what really happened but the consensus is that there was a cover-up. Certainly it was the end of Edward Kennedy's presidential ambitions.
John Edginton's film reopens the investigation into America's most famous traffic fatality. For the first time Rosemary Keough Redmond (one of the so called "Boiler Room girls" who worked on the campaign trail for Edward Kennedy's brother, Bobby) and Dun Gifford (Edward Kennedy's aide) talk about the events surrounding Kopechne's death. Crash experts brought in to examine the scene of the accident agree that Kennedy's account of the accident is preposterous and suggest a different version of events.
Ultimately, however, it is the viewer who must decide whether Kennedy was telling the truth or whether his story was merely an exercise in damage limitation.

An Otmoor production for BBCtv