“Wondery Presents Even the Rich: The Kennedys”
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
On July 19th, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy, scion of the greatest political dynasty in modern America, drove his Oldsmobile into a pond. He escaped. But his passenger, a woman named Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. In the days that followed, he leveraged the Kennedy political machine to shield himself from scrutiny and safeguard his presidential aspirations. As the investigation progressed, his story about the events leading up to the crash started to fall apart. Soon he faced accusations that not even the Kennedys could overcome. This season of Even the Rich tells the story of Chappaquiddick, listen now at wondery.fm/weirddarkness_ETR
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up May 19th through the 21st, it is my biggest horror convention of the year. |
| 0:09.2 | It's spooky empire in Orlando, Florida. |
| 0:12.2 | This is an event you'll want to travel to no matter where you live in North America. |
| 0:17.2 | Vendors, costume and cosplay contests, artists of creepy constructions, a tattoo festival |
| 0:23.2 | with daily awards for the best tattoos, but most of all non-stop Q&A sessions and autograph |
| 0:29.4 | signings with numerous horror celebrities from your favorite movies and TV shows all |
| 0:34.2 | three days, including Danny Lloyd, who played the young Danny Torrance and the shining |
| 0:39.0 | Hutch Patrick, who was Eddie Munster from the Munsters, Paul Wiley in the cast from the |
| 0:43.6 | Terrifier films, Alissa Sutherland from the new Evil Dead Rise, Lynn Shea from Insidious |
| 0:49.6 | and Nightmare on Elm Street, Heather Monorazo from Scream and many, many more. |
| 0:54.8 | Here even having me interview and conduct the Q&A for the Godzilla King in the Munsters |
| 0:59.6 | panel, plus in her only US appearance all year from Stranger Things, Millie Bobby Brown |
| 1:06.6 | is there on Saturday. |
| 1:08.3 | And immediately after Millie's time on stage, I'll be on that same stage talking about |
| 1:13.0 | podcasting, how I create character voices, and I'll also be reading Edgar Allan Poe's |
| 1:17.7 | Telltale Heart Live in front of the crowd, along with my own Q&A afterwards. |
| 1:22.5 | Spooky Empire in Orlando, Florida May 19th, 20th and 21st, get the details on the roadtrip |
| 1:28.4 | page at WeirdDarkness.com. |
| 1:30.8 | That's WeirdDarkness.com slash roadtrip. |
| 1:41.1 | The Nightmares of Edgar Allan Poe, The Terror of Bran Stoker, |
| 1:51.5 | The Monsters of Mary Shelley, The Suspense of Alfred Hitchcock, |
| 2:02.8 | The thrill of Robert Lewis Stevenson, and the horror of the Blancheville Monster. |
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