Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an avid animal genitalia researcher in his spare time, as soon as pulled the household sedan to the aspect of the highway after spying a lifeless raccoon and swiftly reduce off its intercourse organs so he might “examine them later.”
The weird account by the nation’s high civilian well being official was unearthed within the new guide “RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise,” authored by The Put up’s personal Isabel Vincent, who drew upon a variety of sources together with non-public journals he penned whereas dwelling in New York Metropolis between 1999 and 2001.
“I used to be standing in entrance of my parked automotive on I-684 chopping the penis out of a highway killed raccoon, enthusiastic about how bizarre a few of my members of the family have turned out to be,” reads a surreal passage by which the Well being and Human Providers head, 72, was reportedly lamenting his rocky relationships along with his brother Douglas Kennedy and cousin Bobby Shriver.
“My children waited patiently within the automotive,” he famous, later telling Folks journal he collected the raccoon’s genitals so he might “examine them later.”
The eccentric Kennedy scion’s weird recollection provides to the laundry listing of grisly encounters with animal components he’s had over time.
His daughter, Kick Kennedy, recalled in a 2012 interview with City & Nation journal that her father’s fascination with animal viscera as soon as put a smelly damper on a childhood household trip to Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
Upon studying a whale carcass had washed ashore on close by Squaw Island, the elder Kennedy made a beeline for the seaside and proceeded to decapitate the beast with a chainsaw.
He then strapped the whale’s monumental noggin to the roof of the household minivan with a bungee wire, intending as soon as once more to convey it dwelling to review, grossing out the household in his dogged pursuit of information.
“Each time we accelerated on the freeway, whale juice would pour into the home windows of the automotive, and it was the rankest factor on the planet,” she advised the journal.
“All of us had plastic baggage over our heads with mouth holes reduce out, and other people on the freeway have been giving us the finger, however that was simply regular day-to-day stuff for us.”
In 2024, whereas briefly operating for president, Kennedy admitted to the New Yorker journal {that a} decade earlier he had dumped a lifeless bear cub in Central Park after a botched try and pores and skin it.
In an obvious effort to pre-empt the article’s imminent publication, Kennedy admitted in a video on social media that he and a few buddies had been ingesting after they hatched the scheme to ditch the cub’s physique and “make it seem like he received hit by a motorbike.”
He claimed he discovered the killed cub whereas on a falconing journey in Goshen, New York.
Final yr, after President Trump nominated Kennedy to steer HHS, his cousin, Caroline Kennedy, claimed in a letter to lawmakers that whereas in school he put chicks and mice in a blender to feed his hawks, calling his dorm room “a perverse scene of despair and violence,” in keeping with a report within the Telegraph.
To date, the outcomes of Kennedy’s rigorous whale head and raccoon penis research haven’t been publicly disclosed.
