“I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago,” stated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., during a Donald Trump campaign event in Glendale, Arizona.
whale, but his daughter had told stories of how, thirty years earlier, he had chopped the head off a dead whale with a chainsaw.
Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, 36, related how, when she was six years old, her father had removed the whale’s head after it had washed up on the coast at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and used bungee cords to fasten it to the family’s vehicle.
Whale juice would spill into the car’s windows as we accelerated on a highway, and she described it as “the rankest thing on the planet” in an interview with Town & Country magazine in 2012.
“People on the highway were giving us the finger, and we all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, but that was just part of our everyday lives.
