It has been noted that the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a vile story of seeing her father decapitate a dead whale on a beach in 2012 that resurfaced this weekend after he suspended his campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump via Mediaite.
Kick Kennedy has described the event as “normal” in an interview with Town & Country back in December 2012 – years before the country learned the attorney and environmentalist once placed a dead bear cub in New York’s Central Park as a “prank” after initially intending to take the dead animal home for consumption.
The outlet profiled Kick Kennedy during a time when she was a “budding actress” and like her father a staunch environmentalist. In one excerpt of the piece, she said her father used a chainsaw to decapitate a whale that had washed up dead on a Massachusetts beach and spoke of what happened after. Writing for Town & Country Hudson Morgan wrote:
Kick’s taste for the extreme was fed by her dad’s eccentric environmentalism. Exhibit A: When she was six, word got out that a dead whale had washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port. Bobby — who likes to study animal skulls and skeletons — ran down to the beach with a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head, and then bungee-corded it to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour haul back to Mount Kisco, New York.
Kick recounted of the event, “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet.”
She concluded, “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”
Her father’s New York City bear carcass “prank” remained a mystery for years until he told Roseanne Barr earlier this month he staged the dead animal in such a way that would fool whoever came across it into thinking the cub had been killed by a bicycle.
The political scion told his story for the first time to get ahead of reporting on the event by The New Yorker. He said the bear had been struck by another motorist.
