Michaela Zee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a video on his X/Twitter account on Sunday, in which he admitted to dumping a dead bear cub in New York City’s Central Park a decade ago.
In the video, which was seemingly released to get ahead of a forthcoming New Yorker article, Kennedy recounted to Roseanne Barr how he had come across the bear in the morning as he was driving to Goshen, N.Y., to go falconing.
The video, which runs a little over 3 minutes, appears to show Barr and Kennedy discussing the story over breakfast in a spacious kitchen. “A woman in a van in front of me hit a bear and killed it — a young bear,” Kennedy recalled. “So, I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear, and it was in very good condition, and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator.
And you can do that in New York state. You can get a bear tag for roadkill bear.” But the falconing day went longer than anticipated, and instead of returning to his home in Westchester, Kennedy had to go straight to a dinner at Peter Luger Steakhouse in New York City.
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