More than 40 years after her death, the name Mary Jo Kopechne has skyrocketed to the top of Web searches today on the news of the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Kopechne, 28, was killed July 18, 1969, when Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island. Kopechne was found in the car's back seat 10 hours later.
The search term "mary jo kopechne" was the top item on Google Trends just after 1 p.m. today, a metric for Web searches that are the fastest rising. The search engine has given the search term a ranking of "on fire."
On Twitter, her name is out-trending the phrase "Senator Ted Kennedy," an indication that more people are tweeting her name than his.
Kennedy went on to plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.
http://www.freep.com/article/20090826/BLOG36/90826058/1006/NEWS04/Mary-Jo-Kopechne-back-in-spotlight
Glad to see everyone wants to know more about the woman killed by a drunken U.S. democrat senator so long ago.
Kopechne, 28, was killed July 18, 1969, when Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island. Kopechne was found in the car's back seat 10 hours later.
The search term "mary jo kopechne" was the top item on Google Trends just after 1 p.m. today, a metric for Web searches that are the fastest rising. The search engine has given the search term a ranking of "on fire."
On Twitter, her name is out-trending the phrase "Senator Ted Kennedy," an indication that more people are tweeting her name than his.
Kennedy went on to plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.
http://www.freep.com/article/20090826/BLOG36/90826058/1006/NEWS04/Mary-Jo-Kopechne-back-in-spotlight
Glad to see everyone wants to know more about the woman killed by a drunken U.S. democrat senator so long ago.