Some wonder if such associates stir murmurings from his childhood. Was a second shooter present on the grassy knoll when Bobby was nine and his uncle was gunned down in Dallas? And, five years later, was his father’s killer, who was himself killed, an agent of some deep state plot?
“I’m a trial lawyer,” he told The New Yorker’s editor a few weeks ago. “I can guarantee you, looking at this case, that I could prove that my uncle’s death was caused by the CIA. I have enough evidence right now, without any deposition, to prove that my uncle’s death was the result of a conspiracy.”
And yet, rather than do that – honouring his uncle, father, and family with a landmark revelation to rewrite history – he’s on the phone to Mr Tenpenny and Ms Farber.
Whatever, whoever, he didn’t launch a far-fetched bid to seize Joe Biden’s mantle as the Democratic Party’s man in the White House with any expectation of winning. According to CBS News, he was persuaded to run by Steve Bannon, former aide to Mr Trump, as a “chaos agent” to damage the incumbent.
“The people who were there, they’re QAnon believers, anti-vaxxers, Republicans. I didn’t see one Democrat that I knew,” said Massachusetts political analyst Mary Anne Marsh, after his campaign launch in Boston.
“Bobby is an outlier,” wrote three close relatives in May 2019, dissociating themselves from his anti-vaccine campaigning during an upsurge of measles in America. “We are proud of the history of our family as advocates of public health and promoters of immunisation.”
Confronted with their views during what the Gawker website once headlined “A very weird interview,” Mr Kennedy shrugged off the rebuke. “My family members are not experts on vaccines,” he hit back.
Then they asked: “What is your expertise?”
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