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"Wondery Presents Even The Rich: The Kennedys"

2020-09-15 | 🔗
On July 19th, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy, scion of the greatest political dynasty in modern America, drove his Oldsmobile into a pond. He escaped. But his passenger, a woman named Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. In the days that followed, he leveraged the Kennedy political machine to shield himself from scrutiny and safeguard his presidential aspirations. As the investigation progressed, his story about the events leading up to the crash started to fall apart. Soon he faced accusations that not even the Kennedys could overcome. This season of Even the Rich tells the story of Chappaquiddick, listen now at Links:True Murder wondery.fm/truemurder_ETR
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the essential symbol of the all american family of the twenty first century, but as they cemented their place in history, the pressure to remain picture Perfect became undeniable. And, in the end it proved to be deadly. As a young senator TAT Kennedy, mysteriously drove his car off the road into a lake. He survived the crash, though Passenger did not fearing his presidential bid would be tarnished. TED waited ten hours to report the fatal incident as the investor mission progressed his story about the thence leading up to the crash started to fall apart and Word of the deadly accident spread quickly soon he faced accusations, not even the Kennedys could overcome you're about to hear a priest of the new a season of even the rich, the Kennedys are you listening subscribe,
I believe even the rich on Apple podcast, Spotify or ad free on the wonderful up. It's a little after eight in the morning on Saturday July, 19th, one thousand nine hundred and sixty nine and Jim Arena is in his office. Getting ready for what will probably be another boring day works on Martha's vineyard, which is this little vacation island about seven miles off the coast of Massachusetts, he's the local chief of police, which sounds like a big job, but it really isn't. There may be couple burglaries a year on the vineyard or an occasional bar fight or two there isn't even really a police station. It's just two rooms in the town hall this killing time picturing, I'm hanging a bunch of string off a bulletin board trying to solve and unsolvable crime or something when there's a knock on the door. It's a policewoman.
She starts Tellingham, someone's I car floating near bridge and Chappaquiddick Chappaquiddick, as is small island across from the vineyard. She asked If you want to send somebody over there. Now rabbis I'll, go check it out myself a floating car must be a major event for the police. You from Arthur's vineyard yeah, it's practically on the level of a shark attack. Thirty minutes later he's parking. His police cruiser at the edge of the bridge, its of those one leaned. What in Bruges any notices, some skid marks in a couple of the slots are busted out, then he's. These two men on the bridge fishing, so he goes over and ask them if they saw a car underneath one other fishermen replies, yeah, I saw one on the other side, that turns around and looks down into the murky water. He can see what looks like to tyres sticking out above the waterline when he looks up the woman putting his way. She says she lives just down the road and last night around midnight she heard a car speed past our house
it considers this, and then he asked her if she's married, while trying to score data crime scene lulled. No, it's not like that these asking because he wants to know if her husband has a swimsuit. He could borrow the woman looks him up and down arena Like six point four and two hundred and thirty pounds, so the odds aren't great heat, fit into anyone some suit. But then she says yeah. I've got something better work A few minutes later arenas ready. He takes rapid jumps into the water, it's cold and the car. A strong, he figures. Bertha last minute. Ninety seconds top. So yes to move fast He tries to swim towards the car, but the current keeps pushing him back. He tries again same thing: he can It close enough to see inside so we climb out of the pond and goes back to his police cruiser and radios the station asking for back up and fired men, scuba diver, then he jumped
back into the water and tries one more time to get a look inside the car, no dice you're killing me what's in. There got to wait for the scuba diver. Meanwhile, arena scrambles on top of the overturned car and sits down to catch his breath. When he notices the license plate. L, seven, eight, two, zero: seven one backup arrives green is still sitting on a car huffing his hands around his mouth and shouts. I got the plate. Number radio it in a few minutes later, the guy on shore shouts back a car register to Senator Edward Kennedy, Lake, Teddy Kennedy. He up better now as TED Kennedy, wow yeah, that's what I arenas thinking, but he barely has time to process the news before the scuba diving shows up the guys in the water for ten minutes I can hear him banging away on the cars closed windows when a diver. Services he's holding something
it's a young woman, she's petite with blonde hair wearing a long sleeved white blouse and dark slacks. Damn I don't suppose by some miracle. She's part mermaid and survived. Sadly, now she's dead ends,
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