In clips of speeches delivered by the former president ... Many have said that Senator Ted Kennedy, for example, carried an ...

55 years ago, Ted Kennedy was enmeshed in a fatal car accident that would haunt him until his death Jennifer Lynch is a former contributor at PEOPLE. Every July, the anniversary of the tragic 1969 ...

In the speech, excerpted below, Kennedy announced that he would be sending civil rights legislation to Congress; that legislation was passed after his death and signed into law by President Lyndon B.