I took RFK Jr’s phone call long ago. Now I regret it

Robert F Kennedy Jr in New Hampshire in June. ‘His crazy ideas – like Trump’s – are catnip for the media.’ Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

My assistant in the New York Times public editor’s office said Robert F Kennedy was on the phone. Did I want to take the call?

This was roughly a decade ago, but I still remember being momentarily confused. Assassinated in 1968, RFK was long gone, and though we did get some unusual calls in the public editor’s office, they tended to be from the living.