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not two young fellows reported seeing a car upside down in the water not the political direction of the united states was about to be transformed not i never seen anything like this we wanted to find out what happened. you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 48 hours after senator kennedy's car was dragged out of the water of chappaquiddick, the astronauts were still on the surface of the moon preparing for their return to earth.

the senators team of advisors hoped the historic mission would drown out news of his action and the nagging questions that followed. >> if you had a picket day to be a sitting u.s. senator on a day that a woman's body was found that you were drinking with, the best day in history of modern life is the same day that neil armstrong was being the first man to step on the moon at the same time. >> it was too late. the tiny community of chappaquiddick was already over run by reporters. >> at 930 in front of the courthouse, the chief of police faced news men in a crowd estimated at 200 townsman and vacationers. >> at the center of the storm was police chief jim until today earlier rarely had us reason to step foot on the island.

>> there would be a break in once in a while but other than that not much. >> it seemed like a traffic investigation but they will realized early on with the name kennedy attached to it, he would basically be on his own. >> there were claims of a report that he had been in an accident from the das office. [inaudible] >> the kennedy family iran that part of the united states. kate todd and all the surrounding islands, chappaquiddick, all of that was kennedy territory. this was a small town guy, good nature, caught in a real storm.

>> anyone who might have some insight was nowhere to be found. >> i found out every one of them had left the island. >> under pressure to charge him with something, he faced few options. >> i got together with the county prosecutor and we were discussing what we were going to charge him with. >> he didn't have anybody else. he didn't intend to drive off the bridge. it was an accident. call it vehicular homicide was quite a stretch. >> manslaughter. are charges. [inaudible] when he was in my office there were no signs of alcohol. the prosecutor who was my boss, in a way who was leaving the

scene. >> kennedy survived but failed to report the accident until ten hours later. police moved to prosecute him. >> he was convinced there was no negligence beforehand, that the crime was leaving the scene of an accident without reporting at. >> filing a report with the county clerk they charged him with leaving the scene of an accident after having done bodily harm. >> once he had admitted that he had his case right there. there was no need to do anything else. >> my investigation is complete. we will be prepared to enter the hearing and present our fax and if the complaint is issued a summons will be issued for the senator and we have to go to court. >> the senators growing team of advisors debated how to handle the charge without putting kennedy in greater legal jeopardy. they knew they needed to change the narrative desperately. >> support see they have a major

problem in the theme that emerges is to try to create sympathy or ted kennedy and to portray him as one of the victims as well. mary jo isn't the only victim. he is a victim to. we will spin it a certain way. >> remember, you had a concussion. you are in no physical or mental state to save mary jo. >> that opportunity would come >> that opportunity would come the next morning ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ every insurance company tells you they can save you money.

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simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. mary jo would have been 29 years old. her interest in politics and devotion to the kennedys took her far from the pennsylvania community where she is being buried today. >> there was a crowd of people outside and inside. i found joe and went over and hugged him. he wasn't really there. he was destroyed. this was his only child, his daughter and they had a wonderful relationship. i went to the casket and mary jo looked lovely, beautiful. she looked like she was sleeping.

>> the small church was packed. 700 people. kennedy kennedy arrived with his wife joan, his neck visibly seen. >> the message of that neck brace was absolutely clear. there was two victims, mary jo and me. >> it was a stage prop is what it was. >> this is all part of an elaborate effort to basically erase the victim. >> for most people, remember the back story, this is the kennedys, there were two brothers assassinated, the story that there's some sort of kennedy curse had now entered the mythology. >> indeed this had the air of public speculative him. the celebrity politician was at the center of the growing scandal. after the funeral the media was

kept waiting. >> a lot of cameras and shouting, kennedy in the neck brace mark ching out with joan looking very grim. nbc confronted him and repeatedly asked questions, when are you going to tell us what happened. >> he uses the funeral as the occasion of the funeral justify his silence. >> i didn't think it was some great moment that there would be a full-blown news conference. >> when you think you might have a statement is there anyway you

can give us an indication of when that i might be. >> when will be the appropriate time. >> backup compound the senator was sticking with plan a, silence. behind-the-scenes, his lawyers quietly requested to meet with the da and chief of police. >> we set up a meeting prosecutor's house connected group on plan and a court date was set for friday morning, one week to the day from the town data which already seemed like a lifetime ago. >> the arraignment on the charge contained in the complaint will be held at the district court at 9:00 a.m. and mr. kennedy will be present in edgartown tomorrow

morning july 25, 1969 to accept service of this complaint. >> to be wet weather the next morning did not seem to discourage the crowd of onlookers and reporters gathered outside. just before 9:00 a.m., ted and john kennedy arrived and silently made their way through the crowd. >> ted kennedy goes into court and the deal is already done. he's going to plead guilty to the most minimal crime that he can plead to which is leaving the scene of an accident. >> it appeared as a full side, the kennedys and the prosecution new what was to unfold. he folded his hands in front of his chin. he looked like a man deeply disappointed in himself and how say you to this complaint, guilty or not guilty for the 37-year-old senator said guilty so softly the judge couldn't

hear. the prosecutor agreed that the minimum two months offens susped sentence for the first offense was there and it was over. for kennedy in the small town police chief, little sleep and questions. [inaudible] >> we are satisfied with what we have thematically you pursue the investigation. >> yes, if someone comes up with something they think is important to the case i will pursue it, but as far as i'm concerned the case is closed. >> nothing further they said from the bench. the defendant will be punished far beyond what this court can invoke. >> ten minutes later he thought he put his troubles behind him but the court of public opinion would not be as easy to manage. the senior senator from massachusetts. >> 's sentence was on the basis of his character but it's this worldwide reputation that is now the larger question. what can or will he do to

preserve his potential for candidate for president of the united states. >> it was time to talk. >> i have made my plea and i requested the network for time this evening to make a report to the people of massachusetts. >> the teenager was missing for four days before he was found. >> he had no injuries. [inaudible] evil was at work here. [inaudible]

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all we know, no comment. the kennedys were used to having their way with the press so they thought they could do so again. >> but now they thought his legal troubles were over. >> what's left? what's left is politics. >> senator kennedy gets the networks to agree to give him some time about a speech about what happened. >> exactly one week later, from the living room of his father's estate, senator edward kennedy face the public. at 7:30 p.m. eastern standard time the red light blinked and the cameras rolled. >> my fellow citizens, i have requested this opportunity and talk to the people of massachusetts about the tragedy that happened last friday evening. >> the address was broadcast live on all three networks with an estimated 35 million people. >> i attended friday evening july 18, a cookout. i had help sponsor for the

kennedy campaign. when i left the party around 11:15 p.m. i was accompanied by mary jo. >> initially he stuck to the timeline of the police report and attempted to knock down and you and knows and scandals. >> there is no proof whatsoever of the circulated suspicion of immoral conduct of my behavior and hers regarding that evening. a little over 1 mile away the credit i was driving on an unlit road over the bridge, the car overturned in a deep pond and immediately filled with water. i remember thinking the cold water rushed in around my head that i was going to face certain grounding. somehow i struggled and made immediate efforts to save mary

jo my diving through the strong and murky current but fatigue and other exhaustion. [inaudible] >> it was his shop that led to inaction. >> my conduct and conversation during the next row hours to the extent that i can remember them make no sense whatsoever. i regard as indefensible the fact that i did not report the actions immediately. >> that those watching who thought they would finally get a clear picture of what happened one week earlier were disappointed. >> i thought there would be more of an elaboration of what he did. i didn't get an explanation.

>> i wanted to find out why, why did he not report the accident right away. >> in that they made up an entirely different story. >> he added a few things that were not in the police report. >> kennedy now said after the accident, even of his days, he walked back to the party and enlisted friends for help. >> i walked back to the cottage for the party was being held and requested help of two friends, my cousin joseph and directed them to return immediately with me. in order to undertake a new effort to dive down.

their strenuous efforts undertaken with some risk to their own lives. [inaudible] >> it was the first time anyone would hear about their involvement that might. >> the first time in his first report to the police, he simply says he tried to rescue mary jo out of the car and was unable to do so and he went back to edgartown. >> when he went on tv, he told a much more in-depth story that involved walking back to the cabin, getting two friends, having them come to the car and help him try to rescue, swimming down to the car. >> in his speech he also mentioned for the first time how he got off chappaquiddick isla island. [inaudible] i had them take me to the ferry. he said you've got report the

accident. legally you have to report it. he said i will as soon as i get back so then he jumped into the water the mecca suddenly jumped into the water and impulsively swam across, nearly drowning once again in the effort. >> he got caught twice in a severe undercurrent. full-time he thought he was finished. somehow he struggled out of it and clambered back up on the sand and made his way to the motel room and pass out. >> all kinds of scrambled thoughts, all of them confused, some of them irrational, many of them which i cannot recall. >> the 13 minute speech was also a plea to the voters of massachusetts and to whom he gave an ultimatum. he said he was going to ask the people of massachusetts to help him decide whether to stay in the senate.

>> whatever the future holds for me, i hope that i shall be able to but this most recent tragedy behind me and make some further contributions to our state and mankind, whether it be in public or private life thank you. >> in massachusetts,. [inaudible] >> local radio and tv responded, they were taking phone calls and running three and four to one in favor of the senator. >> we feel he is human and people do make mistakes. were at a crossroad. >> he survived, politically.

[inaudible] >> would you vote for him again? >> definitely. >> not only he had survived in his home state, he triumphed. a report published by the boston globe showed that 70% of boston voters wanted him to say. >> there was just this residual sympathy for the family. everyone, large numbers of people. >> but it also revealed something he was anxious to avoid. people didn't believe his story. >> it is sketchy. tremendously sketchy and. >> at home, watching on tv, my sister-in-law's who were younger, they're both crying over the story.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ on july 30 the office of edward kennedy announced he was returning to washington to resume his duties in the senate and would be running for reelection in 1970. before you arrived on martha's vineyard, he had been the clear front runner to carry the family dynasty all the way back to the

presidency, but now many wondered if the façade had suffered a fatal crash. >> chappaquiddick is the first indication that camelot is not all that it should be, that there is a dark side to camelot. >> 's report remain strong in the main state but on the national stage it was another story. they worked overtime to make the events of chappaquiddick go away back here is ted kennedy who has essentially, through his own negligence, killed someone and they're trying to more or less, covered up and put the best possible spin on it so he can run for president in 1972 or 1976. >> rather than fade into the rearview mirror, the nagging questions only intensified and reporters continue to investigate. >> i think the first choice for the democratic nomination and 72, if you make judgments like this and go running off or are

so drunk that you can't handle anything for the next eight hours, i don't think anybody wants a man like this to be head of our country. >> he received a warm welcome on capitol hill before he was majority whip in the senate. >> at the same time. [inaudible] there are doubts now whether he actually is presidential material. >> he had made clear he was not going to answer any more questions you back on martha's vineyard it didn't sit well. >> it began after unanswered questions and things they should've done or the local attorney should have done. >> one resident in particular was not satisfied with the investigation wanted to do more. leslie was the local pharmacist and had been serving as foreman of the grand jury. >> right at the beginning i knew i needed to find out what my duties were.

>> leland inquired with the district attorney. >> my conversation was, okay, what's my responsibility. they said you know nothing yet, it was in accident. >> had been district attorney for ten years and a democrat for future political. [inaudible] >> i supported the kennedys from the beginning since our late president john kennedy was president. he was a personal friend, and i mated edward kennedy for the presidency at chicago in the massachusetts delegation in 1968. >> i just knew he didn't want to get involved with a hot potato and he didn't want to deal with it. the conversation with him was well, you're the district attorney. you're the one that should be investigating, not me, that's

your job. >> eventually the questions and the outrage became too much. on ted kennedy's first week back in washington, the da announced formal charges for the death of mary jo. >> we want to make an official determination of the facts surrounding the circumstances of the death of mary jo. >> judge james a boyle said he wants that inquest to begin on september 3 and that he wants senator edward kennedy to testify, either voluntarily or under subpoena. >> much of the nation's attention had turned to other sensation headlines such as the murders of the actress of sharon tate and for other people committed by charlie manson colt. but new revelations cap chappaquiddick on the front page including a report of phone calls made that night.

>> it showed he made 17 calls before he went to the police station the next morning. >> kennedy denied it and the roof phone company refused to comment. the unending story meant the worst night of his life would remain under intense scrutiny. >> all the obvious stories, the stories went on all summer long. >> many of those who had followed the unfolding saga felt the sense that the matter how much press scrutiny or how long the investigation dragged on, it wouldn't really matter. >> everybody had to buy in on this week i'll let him off the hook. >> they were determined to prove the critics wrong. >> the district attorney of the southern district of massachusetts and his staff presented to me a petition for

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from the moment mary jo's body was pulled from the water, controversy surrounded the way it was handled. >> she had been taken out and she was in the back of the station wagon and was lying there under a blanket. >> she ended up in a configuration that the rescue

asked for this describe in a qualified position, trying to hold on, her head tilted in such a way as to have been grasping for the remaining air. >> associate medical examiner conducted the examination becky declares her dad from drowning, just face on the investigation. he didn't even take off all her clothes and declared it an accident. he looked at the body and he said he didn't notice any injuries and he saw some pinkish foam at the no's and the mouth and that was enough for him and that was it. impending inquiry, he wanted to be sure. >> he said we needed to have an opt autopsy to have her exhumed in the body exam. >> basically i'm not satisfied with the findings that was made

at the scene of the accident. i feel the opinion rendered by the existent medical examiner at that time is not sufficient. >> is a vital factor of the ca case. >> they were conflicted about disturbing their daughters final resting place. >> , have a choice, to exhume mary jo's body in order to satisfy some morbid curiosity that people may or may not have had. these were diehard catholic people and they didn't believe in exhuming someone just to prove something. they hired a lawyer and on september 24, filed their own paperwork, begging the court not to allow the daughters body to be disturbed. >> so that's the last thing they could have under their control was the ability to not exhume

their daughters body and to leave her rest in peace. >> i received a call from the states attorney asking me if i would consult in the case and consider testifying and performing an examination autopsy on mary jo. >> having reviewed the case he testified with his assessment. >> had an examination been done the autopsy would still have come up with the same answers, rule out fractures and strength he and anything else, et cetera, all of that which would've been done and should've been done back in july could have still been done in late september. >> with the family emotionally fragile from the death of their daughter some argued they attempted to exert their influence.

>> in addition to the tragedy of losing the daughter there inundated with the kennedy machine, trying to keep them on their side because they don't want to tip off. >> they were rather surrounded by people who were encouraging them to not have the exhumation. >> it was perceived in the press that they were protecting kennedy and they were protecting ted kennedy, they were protecting mary jo. >> in early september the ruling came down that no autopsy will be held. >> on the scene mean the semi could've never gone up that cemetery again had i known it had been disturbed. >> you feel now this ruling justifies the statement made by senator kennedy. >> what i feel our position has been vindicated and i feel the examination, it always did prove conclusive. >> it was not until years later

that the dust had settled that thethe family reevaluated their decisions to back maybe 15 or 20 years ago. i was talking one day we were talking about what a hard time it was for them to decide whether they would have the estimation or not. she said to me, she said that was the biggest mistake i ever made. >> although an inquest is not a trial where defendant can be found guilty, ted kennedy's lawyers were worried about the impact it could have. >> the lawyers want the judge to set ground rules and they want their clients have the same rights as defendant set a trial and have counsel present and has eczema witnesses, for example. >> the judge shutdown request but in a surprise move state supreme court did them one better, citing efforts to

maintain order, it was ruled that the inquest would be closed for all outside parties, including. [inaudible] >> was the only inquest i had ever heard of in massachusetts were no one was allowed to attend. >> for judges report and all testimony would remain sealed until there was no longer any chance of indictments related to the case. a new start date was set for a new start date was set for january every insurance company tells you they can save you money. save up to 10% when you bundle with esurance. including me, esurance spokesperson dennis quaid. he's a pretty good spokesperson. ehhh. so when i say, "drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved an average of $412," you probably won't believe me. hey, actor lady whose scene was cut. hi. but you can believe this esurance employee, nancy abraham.

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was a chilly morning on january 5, 1970 when ted kennedy returned to edgartown massachusetts. over the next few days 26 witnesses, each with their own version of the event that took place the previous july, but as a result of some on orthodox legal maneuvering, senator kennedy was the first witness called. >> they let the lead safeco first. the press can't broadcast what they see but every single witness who's going to follow him afterward to see what he said. >> hungry press corps gathered outside he answered 86 questions about the like that mary jo died. over the next four days there were shuffled in and out including the chief of police, the diver. >> i testified as to what i did.

[inaudible] on day three reporters swarmed as the boiler room girls made their way through the crowd and into the old courthouse to tell their stories. the proceedings were closed but some detailed managed to leak outside to the press camped outside. >> the real issue was to make sure you got something you could take. >> the kennedy camp took a sigh of relief as it ended quietly. if the public and the press bill had no answers. >> after it was over i went into the courthouse and there was a wastebasket we made a beeline for the wastebasket just in case any one had dropped some important papers printed never forget, as i was doing that i

all of a sudden saw someone in with the state police thing we've already looked there lives. imagine going through wastebasket to get any information. >> oon the eighth the judge fild his report keeping even the grand jury in the dark. leslie leland was not so willing to let things go. >> he felt the responsibility to finalize the case and a responsibility for the truth. >> he quickly learned it would not be so easy. >> they were told they could have the grand jury if they wanted it but they were not allowed to have any materials associated with the inquest and they could not interview anybody who was there.

>> he then paid a visit to the judge. >> is i'm here to request a copy of the inquest transcript and him basically sing no, it was not going to be released to you. >> that was his first clue that there are two sets for the loss. laws for the wealthy and those others. >> to this day i really get riled up because there's just so many questions that were never answered. >> but the grand jury shutdown judge james who is required by law to unseal.

finally at the end of april 1970 they were made public. rather than close the case for good release raise even more questions about the event of july 1969. it would also alter the political life of senator kennedy and quite possibly the united states of america on the next episode. >> from the halls of justice. >> it was the last straw. >> the white house with the process with cap acquitted the spotlight was to reinvestigate. >> they began to get a few soundbites. >> why do you want to be president. >> of them is like a black clo cloud. >> the hope still lives in the dream shall never die. >> after all this time the grand jury in the scandal said there was a cover-up.

>> no one gave a damn about mary jo. i did. >> mary jo can never rest ♪ ♪ ♪ >> breaking tonight, the leading candidate to become the new white house chief of staff drop out of the race as president prepares for a make or break meeting with congressional leaders on funding for the border wall. good evening and welcome to the next revolution. this is the home of positive populism. tonight chad is wife in washington and i'm joined here in los angeles by lisa booth, frank buckley and kennedy. also tonight, i think we needed that, we have the latest on the populace revolution in france and what it means for us here. a new plan to break up big tech and,