# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-jo-kopechne
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:04:58.924Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-jo-kopechne"
name: "Mary Jo Kopechne"
slug: "mary-jo-kopechne"
description: "Mary Jo Kopechne was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the \"Boiler Room Girls\". In 1969, she asphyxiated when a car driven by Robert's brother, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, left a narrow road on Chappaquiddick Island and overturned into Poucha Pond after they had left a party. According to reports, Kennedy left the party at 11:15 p.m. Kopechne's body and the car were not reported missing until the next morning, approximately nine to ten hours later."
tagline: "Teacher, secretary, and campaign specialist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Jo_Kopechne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1940-07-26"
deathDate: "1969-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.24
  momentum:             2.013944223107569
  historical:           6.886309333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne"
    title: "Mary Jo Kopechne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "ماري جو كوبيكني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne"
    title: "Mary Jo Kopechne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne"
    title: "Mary Jo Kopechne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne"
    title: "Mary Jo Kopechne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne"
    title: "Mary Jo Kopechne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_Kopechne"
    title: "Mary Jo Kopechne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4959515"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump