The Lion of the Senate, Edward Kennedy

Ted Kennedy receives physical therapy after a plane crash in which the pilot and Edward Moss, one of Kennedy's aides, were killed. Kennedy was pulled from the wreckage by Senator Birch Bayh.
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Survivor
Ted Kennedy receives physical therapy after a plane crash in which the pilot and Edward Moss, one of Kennedy's aides, were killed. Kennedy was pulled from the wreckage by Senator Birch Bayh and spent weeks in a hospital recovering from a severe back injury, a punctured lung, broken ribs and internal bleeding.

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