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Cover-Up

The Secret Keepers

Cover-Up

People Magazine

Society & Culture, History, News

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

President Nixon had been in office nearly seven months at the time of the Chappaquiddick accident but he viewed Ted Kennedy as a potential threat to his political future. So he sent his private investigator to dig up some dirt, a man who may have known more about Chappaquiddick that anyone else. Learn about his secret investigation and hear from one of the the Senator’s closest confidantes, whom he called in the early morning hours after the accident. 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

You've already achieved so much during things your own way.

0:04.8

So why should your leadership development be any different?

0:07.6

At Warwick Business School, you can choose your preferred pathway

0:11.4

with subject-specific courses and study at your own pace

0:15.8

with world-leading experts.

0:17.8

This is stackable learning.

0:19.8

This is your career your way.

0:22.0

This is Warwick Business School in the Shard London.

0:25.8

Visit WBS.AC.uk

0:29.3

Now.

0:32.6

In the early morning hours of July 19, 1969,

0:36.2

the phone rang with the message that was brief but clear.

0:40.0

Get out to Martha's vineyard as fast as you can, Tony.

0:43.0

Kennedy's car ran off a bridge last night.

0:45.4

There was a girl in it.

0:46.7

She's dead.

0:48.2

The caller was Jack Caulfield, the head of security

0:50.8

for President Richard Nixon.

0:53.2

The man who answered was Tony Alasowitz.

0:55.5

He was President Nixon's private investigator.

0:58.2

And this was one of his first assignments.

1:00.9

Nixon had questions.

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