RFK Jr. comes clean about dumping dead bear in Central Park a decade ago
The Independent presidential candidate is confessing to a nearly decade-old mystery involving a dead bear found in Central Park. CBS New York's Christina Fan has the story.
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The Independent presidential candidate is confessing to a nearly decade-old mystery involving a dead bear found in Central Park. CBS New York's Christina Fan has the story.
The Independent presidential candidate confessed over the weekend to a nearly decade-old mystery involving a dead bear found in Central Park. CBS New York's Christina Fan has the story.
There has been a bizarre development in a nearly decade-old mystery in Central Park, where a bear cub was discovered dead. Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. has now confessed to putting it there.
"I said let's go put the bear in Central Park and we'll make it look like it got hit by a bike," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a video he posted on X.
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