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Cover-Up

The Letter

Cover-Up

People Magazine

Society & Culture, History, News

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The story of Chappaquiddick is not only about Ted Kennedy or Mary Jo Kopechne. It was also about the Boiler Room Girls, the women who were Mary Jo's co-workers -- and her friend. Many theories about what happened that night have been explored in this podcast. And in the final episode of Cover-Up, a mysterious letter reveals new details about the story that has been shrouded in secrecy for nearly 50 years. 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

Drag Race fans, it's time for a new season of EW's Quick Drag, and we're back, back, back

0:05.4

again, covering RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 8.

0:08.7

Beginning May 16th, EW's resident Drag Race experts, Joey Nolfe, that's me, and Jillian

0:13.2

Cedar Holm are back with star quality and recaps of each episode, interviews with the

0:17.2

Queens behind the Juicyest moments, and Q&A's with each week's eliminated contestant.

0:21.5

You know there will be some tea to spill as we enter our All Stars 8 era.

0:25.6

To follow EW's Quick Drag now to get new episodes every Tuesday because you definitely do

0:30.1

not want to miss a thing.

0:31.6

Quack, I love that drink.

0:35.7

Previously on Cover Up

0:37.4

I spent a lot of time in Connecticut trying to forget what happened when I was growing

0:40.4

up and just trying to be like, okay, and not really thinking I needed to find out all

0:45.1

these answers, but then as I got older, I had questions and their inconsistencies.

0:49.7

The issue was what really happened in Capacritic and Leo.

0:56.9

And then I had access to the Kennedy's.

1:02.3

And I arranged for Leo to get money to Joe to get him out of it, Jan.

1:12.1

I quite frankly never thought I'd get Gargan.

1:15.0

I think there was a great amount there of pride, of name and place.

1:20.5

And I think for this reason he began talking to me about this incident in this episode,

1:26.2

but he was not easy.

1:27.3

I noticed a car coming up behind me very quickly and I thought, oh my god, you know, they

1:34.2

better slow down.

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