The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #11: Introduction to Kennedy's Chappaquiddick Conspiracy, 1969

When Senator Edward Kennedy's car went into the water at Chappaquiddick Island, it cost Mary Jo Kopechne her life and ended any possibility of a presidential campaign for yet another Kennedy brother. That fateful incident happened the same weekend as the moon landing in July 1969, and has been the subject of controversy ever since. What really happened that night? How does it fit into the pattern of 1960s assassinations? How did Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt get to Chappaquidick before the authorities? Why did Richard Nixon’s lawyer John Dean describe the incident by saying that Ted didn’t realize what sort of “bear trap” he was getting into? Hmm...