Wondery Presents Even the Rich: The Kennedys

Scene of the Crime

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🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Wondery Presents Even the Rich: The Kennedy's

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 wondery.fm/sceneofthecrime_ETR

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0:00.0	Hey everyone this is Mike Morford one of the producers of the crime.
0:04.0	I'm excited to let you know that we'll have an all new season coming in October
0:08.0	and a new trailer coming out soon so keep an eye out for it.
0:12.0	In the meantime we have a preview of a podcast we think you'll really enjoy from
0:15.8	from Wundery. It's called Even the Rich, the Kennedy's. There's cemented their place in history, the pressure to remain picture perfect became
0:34.4	undeniable, and in the end it proved to be deadly. As a young senator, Ted Kennedy
0:41.1	mysteriously drove his car off the road into a lake.
0:44.0	He survived the crash, though his passenger did not.
0:48.0	Fearing that his presidential bid would be tarnished,
0:51.0	Ted waited 10 hours to report the fatal incident.
0:55.7	As the investigation progressed, his story about the events leading up to the crash started
1:00.4	to fall apart and were the deadly accident spread quickly. Soon he faced
1:06.0	accusations that not even the Kennedy's could overcome. You're about to hear a
1:10.4	preview of the newest season of even the Rich, the Kennedies.
1:14.4	While you're listening, subscribe to Even the Rich on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or listen to ad-free on
1:19.9	The Wundery App.
1:21.6	I hope you enjoy this preview, and I'll see all of you back here very soon.
1:27.0	It's a little after 8 in the morning on Saturday, July 19, 1969.
1:39.0	And Jim Arena is in his office, getting ready for what will probably be another boring day.
1:44.9	Arena works on Martha's Vineyard, which is this little vacation island about seven miles
1:49.4	off the coast of Massachusetts.
1:51.7	He's the local chief of police, which sounds like a big job, but it really isn't.
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