Roger Simon, co-founder of PJMedia and current columnist for The Epoch Times, joined Friday’s edition of The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy to discuss his coverage of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s birthday party in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington DC.
Simon said RFK Jr.’s birthday party was held on January 25 in the house where former President John F. Kennedy first met his wife, Jackie.
“It was held – here’s the great part about it – it was held in Georgetown, in a home that I was told, and it turns out was true, in the kitchen of that home is where a certain congressman named John Fitzgerald Kennedy first met a woman photographer named Jacqueline Bouvier,” Simon said.
Simon said the party was “pretty filled,” noting how various doctors and community college students were among the couple hundred “not overly fancy” people in attendance.
“It was pretty filled. RFK gave what was equivalent to his stump speech,” Simon said. “There was a kind of ecumenical feel to the whole thing, which I liked.”
Simon went on to describe his previous interactions with the presidential candidate, in particular his observance of the “sadness” in RFK Jr.’s eyes, given the multiple tragedies in his family life.
“The thing about him is, he’s pretty substantive and when he talks, he’s an intelligent guy,” Simon said. “I know him now a little bit, because I’ve done some interviews with him…but the thing that’s interesting about him is when you’re talking to him close up for a while, he’s got the sight of stars you ever saw. He suddenly dawns on you, and then you go, “oh yeah.” And you know why, of course. I mean, you know, we’ve all had problems in our life, that’s the human condition. However, very few of us had our uncle assassinated when we were roughly nine…And then your father was assassinated half a dozen years later…And so I mean, there is a lot of a lot of sadness there, a lot of sadness and you can see it in his eyes, frankly.”
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Photo Roger Simon ” by Roger Simon and “RFK Jr” is by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
