210. The RFK Jr. Feud | August 2003 and Everything After
Done & Dunne
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4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week, we wrap up the nasty feud of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dominick Dunne. All through 2003, these two have been tossing around all the words. What happens in August of 2003, and what is the ultimate conclusion to this sordid tale? How much justice was served anyway?
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.combe.uk slash wondering. Welcome to Dunn and Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where it really does always connect. Thank you for joining me |
| 0:23.8 | today. We have just a little bit more to cover in our timeline with our man Nick and the feud |
| 0:30.2 | with RFK Jr. RFK Jr. is really waging a war against Dominic Dunn on behalf of his cousins? |
| 0:40.4 | You thought the start of the battle was bad with Bobby's lengthy piece in the beginning of 2003 |
| 0:46.7 | and then Dunn's springtime March 2003 reaction. In the last episode, we got the updates from June of 2003, but what happens in August |
| 0:59.3 | and everything after? Lots to cover today to complete this particular arc for now. Let's investigate. |
| 1:08.9 | Music Let's investigate. |
| 1:28.8 | Oh, friends, we have to begin at the letters. |
| 1:34.1 | Bobby Jr. and Dominic Dunn are men of letters after all. In the last episode, I mentioned that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a hot letter that Vanity Fair was going to print. |
| 1:49.8 | Vanity Fair did print this letter in May of 2003. |
| 1:57.8 | Bobby Jr.'s letter was in the letters section, and it was written in response to Dominic Dunn's March column. Here is Bobby's letter. Beneath the vitriol, Dominic Dunn, round two with |
| 2:06.8 | the Kennedy's March, contests only two among the hundreds of facts in my Atlantic monthly piece, |
| 2:14.3 | www.w.theatlantic.com, describing his role in the wrongful conviction of my cousin Michael Skakel. |
| 2:22.3 | But these and every other statement in my Atlantic monthly piece were rigorously verified by fact |
| 2:28.8 | checkers. The circumstances of his early friendship with Mark Furman, which he now disputes I took directly |
| 2:35.9 | from Mr. Dunn's own published accounts. Mr. Dunn also challenges my statement that Michael Skakel |
| 2:42.1 | never called himself a Kennedy cousin, quote unquote, citing the title to Michael's book proposal, |
| 2:49.1 | which employs that phrase. |
| 2:51.3 | But that proposal was written by author Richard Hoffman and its title chosen by book agent David Vigliano, who circulated the manuscript. |
| 3:01.5 | Mr. Dunn repeats his perennial falsehood, now ingrained as truth in the public mind mind that the Skakel family actively impeded |
| 3:09.8 | the Moxley murder investigation. As evidence, Mr. Dunn offers only his claim that a deceased |
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