RFK Jr. Says He Cut Off Dead Raccoon’s Genitals to “Study Them”!
Republican government official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is trending online again after he made a shocking and majorly gross admission in his upcoming memoir.
According to his book, Kennedy once stopped on the side of a highway to remove a dead raccoon’s genitals because he wanted to “study them later.”
The unusual story appears in the new book RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise by Isabel Vincent, who drew from Kennedy’s personal journals written between 1999 and 2001. Kennedy, now 72 and serving as Secretary of Health and Human Services, recalled spotting a raccoon while driving with his children on Interstate 684.
“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” Kennedy reportedly wrote, adding “My kids waited patiently in the car.”
Kennedy later told PEOPLE that he collected the animal’s genitals so he could “study them later.”
The account is the latest in a series of unusual stories involving Kennedy and dead animals. In a 2012 interview with Town & Country, his daughter, Kick Kennedy, recalled that her father once cut the head off a dead whale that had washed ashore in Massachusetts and tied it to the roof of the family car.
“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car,” she said. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out.”
Last year, Kennedy also acknowledged that he once left a dead bear cub in New York City’s Central Park after finding it during a falconing trip.