Did RFK Jr. behead a dead whale on Cape Cod? Advocacy group calls for investigation

His daughter, Kick Kennedy, told Town and Country in 2012 that her father used a chainsaw to cut off the whale's head after hearing that the whale had washed up on Squaw Island. He tied it to the roof of the family minivan with a bungee cord, apparently planning to take it to Mount Kisco, New York, for study.

“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would run against the windows, and it was the most disgusting thing in the world,” Kick Kennedy told Town and Country in 2012. “We all had plastic bags with mouth holes cut out over our heads, and people on the highway would give us the middle finger, but that was just our normal everyday life.”

In a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund stated that it is illegal to possess body parts of animals – dead or alive – protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act or the Endangered Species Act.