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Sinisterhood

Episode 24: Chappaquiddick

Sinisterhood

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Jovember continues with an episode dedicated to the Chappaquiddick scandal Senator Ted Kennedy waited 10 hours before telling police he had driven off the side of a bridge, into Poucha Pond, and left Mary Jo Kopechne to die in his car fully submerged in water. That wasn't quite his story though... Support Sinisterhood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

She thought it would be a fun reunion with friends, but Mary Jokkepegne's last night ended in dark water.

0:06.0

Was it a simple accident? Or was there a sinister cover-up at play?

0:10.5

This week's episode is Chapacwidic.

0:18.0

Up and in the lights, your heart fills with dread.

0:22.5

Probably a murder of who wants you dead.

0:26.0

It could be a ghost, a demon or worse.

0:30.0

Perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse.

0:33.0

It's hopeless, you're doomed, you'd call a priest if you could.

0:37.0

You'd rather just listen to who sinister who.

0:48.0

I'm gonna kill you.

0:51.0

I just have a really weak heart, I think, because I like...

0:56.0

This is where you tell a soul you're dying.

0:59.0

Oh no, I have a very strong heart, but I mean like a weak soul, because I just feel like I can see the good in people.

1:04.0

And I've been struggling a lot with seeing the good in dead.

1:07.0

What do you think was good about him?

1:10.0

Well, first of all, in my, I'm reading Give Us Our Ballot, which is a voter rights book.

1:15.0

Oh nice.

1:16.0

It's like the history of the Voting Rights Act and basically the systematic repression of people of color over the last, I don't know, hundred years.

1:23.0

And he was instrumental in getting younger people to write to vote.

1:27.0

So there was a bill that he knew was gonna pass and he slipped in the under 18, under 21, so you'd be 18 to vote provision.

1:35.0

And his argument was if you can be sent to die in Vietnam, you should be able to vote.

1:39.0

I think that's a good argument.

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