Chappaquiddick | The Black Sheep | 28

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When Ted Kennedy takes a vacation in the summer of 1969, it’s supposed to be a chance to blow off steam and get away from the crushing pressure of being a Kennedy. But one crashed car and a dead woman later, his trip turns into a scandal that threatens to ruin his family’s legacy. This season, we’re digging into the tragic saga of Chappaquiddick. In this episode, Ted Kennedy goes from baby brother to senator to potential presidential candidate. He flourishes in public, but in private, he flounders.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can
0:01.8	convince the newest season of even the rich before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.4	Heads up, we're going to be swearing in this episode.
0:09.9	I think they know that by now.
0:11.4	Okay.
0:13.4	It's a little after.
0:17.4	It's a little after 8 in the morning on Saturday, July 19, 1969, and Jim Arena is in his office,
0:28.0	getting ready for what will probably be another boring day.
0:32.0	Arena works on Martha's Vineyard, which is this little vacation island about seven miles off
0:36.5	the coast of Massachusetts.
0:38.6	He's the local chief of police, which sounds like a big job, but it really isn't.
0:43.0	There's maybe a couple burglaries a year on the vineyard
0:46.0	or an occasional bar fight.
0:48.0	There isn't even really a police station.
0:50.0	It's just two rooms in the town hall.
0:52.0	Arena's killing time.
0:54.0	I'm picturing him hanging a bunch of straying off a bulletin board
0:57.0	trying to solve an unsolvable crime or something.
1:00.0	When there's a knock on the door.
1:02.0	It's a police woman. She starts telling him someone
1:04.7	saw a car floating near a bridge on Chappacritic. Chappacritic is a small island across from the
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