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Cover-Up

The Family Code

Cover-Up

People Magazine

Society & Culture, History, News

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Many people say you can’t understand Chappaquiddick unless you understand the effect of Bobby Kennedy’s death on his younger brother, Ted. The same could be said for Mary Jo Kopechne — that you have to understand the effect of Bobby’s death on her. Learn about the two people at the center of the scandal: the man thrust into a position he never expected, and the woman whose life was cut short before she ever had a chance. Hear from those who knew a side of Mary Jo many didn't get to see, and the surprising theory they all share. To continue the discussion, join our Facebook group to share your thoughts and theories or reach us directly at coverup@people.com. And for more on the case, go to people.com/coverup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:25.8

My brother need not be idealized or enlarge in death beyond what he was in life.

0:36.1

To be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to write it, saw

0:44.2

suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.

0:51.8

Those of us who loved him and who take him till his rest today, pray that what he was to us,

1:00.3

what he wished for others for someday come to pass for all the world.

1:06.6

Ted Kennedy delivered the eulogy as brother Bobby's funeral on June 8, 1968 at St. Patrick's

1:12.4

Cathedral in New York City, just three days after Bobby had been assassinated.

1:17.4

13 months later, Ted drove his car off a narrow wooden bridge and plunged into the water

1:22.4

below, leaving his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kepekni, to die.

1:29.5

Many people say you can't understand chapacwitik unless you understand the effect of Bobby's death

1:34.1

on his younger brother.

1:36.5

On June 5, 1968, Ted was at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco watching the California Democratic

1:42.2

primary returns.

1:44.1

Bobby won the primary and seemed well on his way to winning the Democratic nomination,

1:48.4

and possibly the presidency.

1:51.0

After Ted watched his brother and his wife Ethel greet supporters in the ballroom of

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