Someone who attended prep school with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalled watching him ...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers
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Just listened to an interview with The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Someone who attended prep school with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalled watching him place metal cutlery under the dining hall table and holding a lighter to them. This was so the boy clearing the table would burn his hands.
September 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM

Just listened to an interview with The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Someone who attended prep school with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalled watching him place metal cutlery under the dining hall table and holding a lighter to them. This was so the boy clearing the table would burn his hands.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-09-03T22:47:37.690Z

[FadedMullet]

1. I'm visualizing Trump and Kennedy, two prep school assholes, swapping stories like this and laughing like the monsters..

...that they still are.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Cooking up his next fix?

You'd have to be pretty brazen - or strung out - to do it in a dining hall.

[Blue Owl]

6. RFK Jr. strikes me as the type...

…who’d ingest any substance that was cooking on a spoon over an open flame. Just a vibe I get from him…

[area51]

3. Bobby Jr. is a psychopath.

[Hekate]

4. NotRFK is indeed a psychopath

[Tanuki]

5. Per Jonathan Alter, who knew RFKJr in college:

https://oldgoats.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-pedigreed-menace

...."I first met Bobby in the mid-1970s at Harvard, where his name and super-cool affect made him attractive to people like me who should have known better. One year, we were in an American history class together and he rarely showed up or read any of the assignments. On the night before the final, I agreed to brief him on the course material instead of studying myself. I did fine but felt like a fool for succumbing to his toxic allure.

All of the older male children of Robert and Ethel Kennedy were troubled. In 1983, Bobby, an assistant DA in New York, was busted for heroin possession on an airplane. David died of a drug overdose in 1984 and Michael was killed in 1997 when he crashed into a tree while recklessly playing touch football on an Aspen ski slope.

I saw Bobby occasionally in the years that followed but mostly steered clear of him, thanks in part to my wife, who distrusted him even when he seemed to be an effective environmentalist. In 2014, I ran into Kennedy and one of his sons on the slopes at Deer Valley. He was friendly and charming (a side of him that voters will respond to) and we skied a few runs together without incident. Suddenly, he veered recklessly into the woods and the rest of our party of five meekly followed, barely dodging trees like the ones that had killed his brother. When we emerged onto the open slope, I was upset with myself. I said goodbye and vowed never to talk to him again.".... (more)