El Podcast16 Heinä 2024

E87: The Kennedys: Power, Scandal, & Murder w/ Maureen Callahan

Maureen Callahan joins to expose the dark legacy of the Kennedy family through the lens of the women whose lives they damaged or destroyed.

Guest bio: Maureen Callahan is an award-winning investigative journalist and author. Her work spans pop culture and politics and has appeared in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Spin, and The New York Post. She currently writes for the Daily Mail and is the author of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed.

Discussed topics (in order):

The 25th anniversary of JFK Jr.’s fatal plane crash
JFK Jr.’s recklessness and death wish
The failure of George magazine and his troubled personal life
The mythmaking of the Kennedy dynasty beginning with Joe Kennedy Sr.
Rosemary Kennedy’s lobotomy and hidden life in Wisconsin
Challenges publishing the book and media complicity with the Kennedy myth
The role of women like Jackie Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette
The stories of interns and mistresses like Mimi Alford
Marilyn Monroe’s entanglement with both JFK and RFK
Ted Kennedy and the Chappaquiddick incident
Media whitewashing of Kennedy scandals and parallels to current politics
Pushback against the book and Callahan’s motivation for writing it
The deaths and trauma inflicted on women like Martha Moxley, Mary Jo Kopechne, and Pam Kelley
Final reflections on the women’s strength, historical amnesia, and reclaiming the narrative

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