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RFK Jr., his brilliant Harvard roommate and the mystery of who really wrote his A+ thesis
 By Jerry Oppenheimer   
July 10, 2023 3:59pm
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Did presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cheat on his important Harvard senior thesis by having his roommate do some, most, or all of the work?

There are those who believe he did.

Kennedy’s roommate for all four years was Peter Kaplan, who would become one of his generation’s most distinguished journalists, including being executive editor of 1980s business magazine Manhattan, Inc., executive producer of Charlie Rose when he had a PBS show, and longtime editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, which was bought by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law.  ...

In contrast Kennedy, who thought it would be fun to bring a snake with him to Harvard, apparently had no such lofty ambitions beyond getting high and chasing women. ...

In the spring of 1972, 18-year-old Kennedy, who had been asked to leave two elite boarding schools because of his bad behavior and drug use, had finally made it to his senior year at a super-progressive school in a Boston suburb, and was about to choose a college.

There was, naturally, only one: Harvard, which he considered his “birthright,” where two generations of Kennedy forebears, including his late father, had matriculated.

But his senior classmates asserted, to their shock, that he wrote only two words on the application – “Kennedy” and “Harvard” – sent it in, and was accepted. ...
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