RFK Jr. drove family to Mount Kisco with whale's severed head on van: Daughter in 2012

Another questionable animal story involving former Hudson Valley resident and recent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making waves — only this time it doesn't include a bear cub but a beached whale.

In a 2012 Town & Country Magazine interview with Kennedy's daughter Kick Kennedy , when she was a child word had gotten out regarding a beached whale out on Squaw Island, Massachusetts (nearby Hyannis Port is home to the longstanding Kennedy Compound).

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According to the interview, RFK Jr. heard of the whale beaching, and used a chainsaw to remove the dead mammal's head, which he then attached to the family minivan with a bungie cord. RFK Jr. and his family then made the hours-long trip back to Mount Kisco, where they lived at the time.

Kick said "whale juice" poured into the windows of the van every time they accelerated on the highway, calling it the "rankest thing on the planet." The family put plastic bags over their heads "with mouth holes cut out," Kick told Town & Country.

"People on the highway were giving us the finger," Kick said, "but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us."

The resurfacing of the beached whale tale is just another bit of oddity to add to RFK Jr.'s resume regarding animals. The environmental lawyer and champion for causes such as conservation of the Hudson River, revealed in early August to Roseanne Barr in a video posted to X that he was the culprit behind the appearance of a bear cub carcass in Central Park in 2014.

"This was a little bit of the redneck in me," Kennedy told Barr in the video , before going on to explain how he staged the scene in Central Park to make it look like the cub had been hit by a bike.

RFK Jr. was barred from running for president in New York on Aug. 12 after a judge invalidated his candidate petition for wrongly claiming he lived in Westchester County.

Since being barred from the NY ballot, Kennedy suspended his candidacy Friday and threw his support behind the Republican party's candidate, former president Donald J. Trump.

This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: RFK Jr. drove family to Mount Kisco with whale's severed head on van: Daughter in 2012