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The Bridge at Chappaquiddick

By: Jack Olsen
Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
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The classic by master nonfiction author Jack Olsen. Updated ebook file October 2017.

And on its surface, the Chappaquiddick Incident (as it has infamously become known) was a simple but tragic traffic accident. However, its political fallout caused it to become the most speculated-upon car accident until Princess Diana's fatal ride, some 28 years later: Was Kennedy drunk? Was he trying to conceal an affair by deliberately killing Kopechne? Why did he wait for so long before reporting the accident? And who else was involved?

Olsen tells the tale with as much detail as was made available to him. Though there is apparently only a single living eye-witness to the accident (Kennedy himself, who described having the "sensation of drowning" on live television a week later), Olsen tracks down the incongruous statements made by others who were indirectly involved... and comes to a potential conclusion which would be difficult to refute. There is no legal evidence of this conclusion, of course, but his alternate explanation of events turns much of the circumstantial evidence into a logic-of-sorts.

©1970 Jack Olsen Literary Works, LLC (P)2025 Jack Olsen Literary Works, LLC Politics & Government True Crime United States World
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while it had a slow start once it got to the actual accident the book got interesting. it focused alot on ted Kennedy's state after the accident and how it may effect his political career and the grieving period.

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