Book Accuses RFK Jr. of Dissecting Roadkill Raccoon in 2001

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is accused of severing the penis of a roadkill raccoon for later study. The incident occurred in 2001 when Kennedy spotted the raccoon while driving on the highway with his family, according to a book by New York Post journalist Isabel Vincent.

: The Fall and Rise, which relies on a series of alleged diaries obtained by Vincent. ' Kennedy later took the raccoon’s organs for study. This incident follows a 2024 admission by Kennedy regarding a different animal, where he left a dead bear cub in New York City’s Central Park a decade earlier, making it appear as if it had been hit by a bike.

He stated in a video that he had picked up the bear after witnessing it being killed by another driver, intending to skin it and use the meat. ' In 2012, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy recounted an incident where RFK Jr. used a chainsaw to decapitate a whale carcass and transported the head in a car, describing the experience as unpleasant due to the odor.

In a letter to the Senate, Caroline Kennedy claimed that RFK Jr. blended chicks and mice in a college dorm room to feed them to a pet falcon, further illustrating his controversial interactions with animals.