Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right? 300+The Atlantic by Michael Scherer / Nov 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM 6 Companies View All Photographs by Elinor Carucci Robert F. Kennedy Jr. somehow knew, even as a little boy, that fate can lead a person to terrible places. “I always had the feeling that we were all involved in some great crusade,” Kennedy once wrote, “that the world was a battleground for good and evil, and that our lives would be consumed in that conflict.” He was 9 years old when his uncle was assassinated and 14 when his father suffered the same fate. I happened to be sitting next to him this fall when he learned that his friend Charlie Kirk had been shot. We were on an Air National Guard C-40C Clipper en route from Chicago to Washington, D.C., and one of Kennedy’s advisers, her eyes filling with tears, whispered the news in his ear. “Oh my God,” he said. National Guard stewards handed out reheated chicken quesadillas, which Kennedy declined in favor of the quart of ...
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