Chappaquiddick | The Reckoning | 30
Even the Rich
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🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Even the moon landing can’t knock the Chappaquiddick scandal out of the headlines, and the longer it stays there, the more iffy Ted’s political future looks. His only hope of getting back into the public’s good graces is to tell them what really happened. But there’s no guarantee they’ll forgive him. In fact, they might not even believe him.
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| 0:07.0 | It's Sunday morning, July 20th, 1969, and Joan Kennedy is sitting perfectly still in front of an old school rotary telephone. |
| 0:22.0 | She's about to make a call and she is not looking forward to it. |
| 0:25.9 | She's only just arrived at Hyannis Port, but the Kennedy family's spin doctors are already |
| 0:30.3 | putting her to work. Out of the corner of her eye, |
| 0:33.0 | she sees one of them lurking around, |
| 0:35.0 | and she says, |
| 0:36.3 | There's a dead girl, and all you care about is how it looks. |
| 0:40.0 | But she already knows the answer is yes, |
| 0:42.0 | and now they need her help with something that her husband messed up. |
| 0:45.6 | Yesterday, when Ted called Gwen and Joe Kepekney, Mary Joe's parents, it was a disaster. |
| 0:51.3 | He didn't even bother to tell them he was with their daughter when the car crashed into the water, |
| 0:56.1 | or that he was the one driving. |
| 0:58.2 | This could totally come back and bite him in the ass. |
| 1:01.0 | So the spin doctors have nominated Joan to get ahead of it, try to smooth things over. |
| 1:05.0 | You know, basically another example of women cleaning up the messes of men. |
| 1:09.0 | As she starts to dial, Ted comes up beside her. |
| 1:13.0 | She wants to know what she should say if they ask questions or want details. |
| 1:17.0 | Ted tries to reassure her. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, you don't have any details. |
| 1:21.0 | That's not what this call is about, Jonesy. Just be nice, be sympathetic, and |
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