From Audible Originals, I'm Lindsay Graham, and this is American Scandal. In July of 1969, a car drove off a bridge on Chappaquick Island.

The passenger, Mary Joe Kepechnie, would die that night,

and the driver, Senator Ted Kennedy, would not report the accident for nearly 10 hours.

He was never charged with a crime.

He received a two-month suspended sentence for leaving the scene,

and eight months later, he was re-elected to the Senate with 62% of the vote.

To many, it seemed, the full weight of one of America's most powerful political families

was deployed to ensure the senator's career survived.

This scandal raised serious questions, not just about what really happened that night,

but how it was handled and whether the outcome would have been the same

for someone without Kennedy's name and influence.

More than 50 years later, those questions still resonate.

My guest today is Peter Canellas.

He's a veteran political journalist, author, and editor of Last Lion, The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy.

Our conversation is next.

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