A newly released biography of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) is drawing attention for a striking passage drawn directly from his personal journals, including an account in which he allegedly cut off the private parts of a road-killed raccoon as his children waited in the family car.
The detail appears in RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise, an investigative biography by journalist Isabel Vincent, which compiles material from Kennedy’s private diaries spanning roughly 1999 to 2001. According to multiple excerpts cited in reporting on the book, the journals were later passed to Vincent through a source connected to Kennedy’s late second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, following her death in 2012.
