{"id":401927,"date":"2026-04-16T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401927\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:04:07","slug":"rfk-jr-once-cut-penis-off-road-killed-raccoon-in-new-york-new-book-reveals-robert-f-kennedy-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401927\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr once cut penis off \u2018road-killed raccoon\u2019 in New York, new book reveals | Robert F Kennedy Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a> once cut the penis off a road-killed raccoon in an incident that is just one of several involving dead animals that the controversial US health secretary has been involved in.<\/p>\n

A new book called RFK Jr: The Fall and Rise was published this week and reveals a diary entry for Kennedy that describes the prominent vaccine critic and leader of the \u201cMake America healthy again\u201d (Maha) movement stopping his car on a New York<\/a> highway on 11 November 2001.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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,\u201d Kennedy wrote in the journal.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cMy kids waited patiently in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isabel Vincent, the author of the new book, told<\/a> People that he took the raccoon\u2019s genitals so he could \u201cstudy them later\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kennedy has long had a fascination for animal bodies, especially those he finds dead which he sometimes collects and studies. Elsewhere in the book, the author notes that a journalist traveling with Kennedy in Long Island in 2001 reported that he was fascinated by dead seagull corpses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to pick up some of these dead seagulls for my skull collection,\u201d the book quotes Kennedy as saying, though his schedule on the day did not allow him to pause his journey and harvest the bones.<\/p>\n

There have been numerous stories involving Kennedy and his treatment of dead animals.<\/p>\n

Environmental groups were outraged over a story which revealed the former presidential candidate once severed the head of a washed-up deceased whale<\/a> with a chainsaw and strapped it to his car\u2019s roof. He also once confessed to dumping a dead bear cub in New York\u2019s Central Park<\/a>, attempting to make it look like the creature was killed by a bicyclist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert F Kennedy Jr once cut the penis off a road-killed raccoon in an incident that is just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-401927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}