In this episode, Scott Rolle and Jersey Joe shift from Dallas to Martha's Vineyard to tackle the scandal that may have ended the last Kennedy's shot at the presidency. On the night of July 18th, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy's car went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne never made it out. Kennedy didn't report it until the next morning. Jersey Joe makes the case that Kennedy wasn't even in the car when it went over, and that the story the nation was told was constructed at the Kennedy compound to save a Senate career. Scott and Joe also trace the full arc of Kennedy family tragedy, from Joe Junior's death in World War Two to JFK and RFK's assassinations, and ask whether the so-called Kennedy curse was really just a dynasty undone by its own ambitions.

In this episode, Scott Rolle is joined in the studio by attorney, writer, and conspiracy theorist Joe Racioppi, aka Jersey Joe, for the first installment of a deep dive into the Kennedy family's darkest chapters. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy remains the most investigated crime in American history, and six decades later, the central question still has no definitive answer. Scott and Jersey Joe, who visited Dealey Plaza together to see the scene firsthand, debate the Zapruder film, the magic bullet theory, Oswald's suspicious background, Jack Ruby's even more suspicious timing, and whether the CIA had both the motive and the means to orchestrate it all. The prosecutor and the conspiracy theorist go head to head, and neither one fully convinces the other.