What was the Chappaquiddick Incident?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On July 18th, 1969, campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne and Senator Ted Kennedy were involved in a single-car accident while departing a reunion held at Chappaquiddick island. Only one of them made it it out of the car alive. In the hours, days, weeks, years and decades since, numerous people have tried and failed to come up with conclusive answers about the sequence of events leading to Kopechne's tragic death. Join Ben and Matt as they interview Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan, the screenwriters behind the film Chappaquiddick, as they retrace their steps researching and writing the story, including their inspirations, their beliefs about what actually occurred, and why it's crucial to remember this incident in the modern day.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.7	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:24.1	Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
0:26.6	Our trustee co-host Noel is off on a completely non-schedgy mission but will be returning.
0:33.9	They called me Ben. We're joined with our super producer Paul Deckent. Give him a hand.
0:39.1	Folks, friends and neighbors. But most importantly, give a hand to yourself. You are here. You are
0:44.8	you. And that makes this stuff they don't want you to know. Today, Matt, you and I are diving into
0:53.9	a crucial event in American history. One that despite quite possibly changing the course of
1:02.9	American politics is relatively obscure to a lot of people living today, especially younger
1:10.3	members of our audience. Yes, you and I know about this because we've been paid to delve into
1:15.4	historical strangeness for quite a time now. And a lot of people listening are going to be familiar
1:20.8	with the story we discussed today because of their interest in these things. But overall, the American
1:27.1	public is maybe especially younger people are not aware of this. It's something that happened
1:35.4	on July 18, 1969, one day, essentially, one night. And it changed the course of one man's life
1:44.8	quite a bit. And today, we have two gentlemen on the show who wrote an entire screenplay about
1:52.0	that day and the aftermath, why it occurred, what occurred. And we're going to jump right in and
1:59.0	introduce them right now. That's correct. The screenwriters of Chapacwitik, Taylor Allen and Andrew
2:04.4	Logan. Welcome to the show, gentlemen. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you so
2:09.3	much for having me. I'm really excited to be here. So let's jump right in. And today, we are
2:14.4	discussing the Kennedy family, an American institution, a group of people who have captured the
2:20.9	fascination of Americans for decades upon decades. And let's first start off by discussing just how
2:28.0	powerful the Kennedy institution was in the 1960s. So yeah, the family, you know, was for sure,
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