200. The Kennedy Chronicles | Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick, Part One
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this continuing episode within our Kennedy Chronicles, we pick up the storyline of Ted Kennedy, and into the events of what should have been a wonderful July weekend in 1969. A group of twelve – six men and six women - gather to celebrate so many things. There is a whole lot happening this weekend on Chappaquiddick - the Apollo 11 moon journey, the 43rd Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta, and the memory of Robert F. Kennedy, assassinated just a year before.
How does this fun-filled weekend turn into Ted’s very worst nightmare? In this episode, we set up the facts we can establish. What are the details of this weekend that everyone can agree upon, at least on Friday, before Saturday comes around?
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.com.uk slash wondery. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic |
| 0:18.1 | Dunn. Thank you for joining me for today's investigation. We are still within |
| 0:23.6 | the Kennedy Chronicles this week, continuing our journey with Ted Kennedy. Please go back to |
| 0:30.2 | episode 199 from last week for the background of Ted, including his childhood, his first marriage, his first divorce, and a whole lot |
| 0:40.3 | of Kennedy family attachments. This week, it is to the major scandal, the first that shadowed Teddy's |
| 0:48.6 | life, which begins on a hot July night in 1969 in Chappaquitic, Massachusetts. What should have been a summer |
| 0:59.3 | weekend of friends and celebration, and a regatta too, turned into something very different indeed, |
| 1:07.8 | for it was this weekend that a talented, bright and dynamic young woman drowned when the |
| 1:14.2 | car she was in, being driven by Ted Kennedy, flipped over the Dyke Bridge on Poocha Pond. |
| 1:22.4 | Our man, Nick, did write an awful lot about the Kennedy family, and Teddy was no exception. |
| 1:29.8 | Today we begin our investigation into the events of that July 1969 weekend |
| 1:35.6 | and what can be established as fact before the events become as murky as Poocha Pond. |
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| 2:37.6 | of thanks to give before we begin today, and that is to each and every one of you who have joined |
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