you will have a political future if you are in jail. i think you need to cool down here. i understand my problems with the press. martha: now chappaquiddick being told in a whole new light. up next in a the story exclusive, we speak with mary jo s cousin. she tells us what ted kennedy told them and reveals the news that made mary jo s parents feel like they lost her all over again. what kind of a person would allow her to stay in that water for ten hours? use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it.
recovered from that car. i recently sat down with georgiana petoskey, her cousin and close confident and author of the book our mary jo. what goes through your mind reliving this story and washington on the big screen? it was very powerful. it was very emotional and it was very sad. we did like the movie, we thought they did a masterful job with it. i thought jason clark, you thought you were watching ted kennedy and kate marro was darling and sweet and i think it captured mary jo s personality. at the same time, they walked a fine line with some of the scenes so not to imply the wrong thing and we appreciate that because mary jo was a woman full of integrity and intelligence and ambition and we still miss her to this day in our family. martha: i m sure you do.
been running through our heads for 50 years. they did a great job. martha: do you remember learning this news, it must ve been such an enormous shock for your family. were you even aware that she was n afterwards and will tell you everything about what happened. they were destroyed anyway and they were not in any position to have any long, complicated conversations. we got through the week and the funeral and the burial the best way we could and then we waited. martha: georgiana, thank you very much. i m glad you and your family feel that this portrayal of her is closer to the mary jo that you knew and i thank you very much for sharing your story with us here tonight. certainly. martha: our thanks to georgiana.
she was from not far where i live and i imagine it s still so enormous for you to this day. i know you have a lot of questions about ted kennedy s role in all this and what they were even doing in that car together in the first place, right? it when we first heard that he said he was taking her to the ferry to catch the last ferry, i believe that because mary jo would not have stayed overnight and she would have wanted to go home. it seemed perfectly natural for us that they would be trying to catch the last ferry and having lived in new england, we know most ferry lines stop at midnight. he said they left the cottage at 1115 and were going to catch the last ferry, that made sense to us at least at the time that this was all happening. martha: when you see those behind the scenes of the kennedy clans getting together, really focused on trying to save ted kennedy s integrity, trying to
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