‘It Was My Father’s First Instinct’ to Believe the CIA Killed JFK: Robert Kennedy Jr.

Robert Kennedy Jr. attends the "Anthropocene: The Human Epoch" Premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival at Temple Theater in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 25, 2019. Rich Fury/Getty Images

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, said his father’s first reaction to the news of the 35th president’s assassination was to question the CIA about its potential involvement.

In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night, Kennedy recalled the day his uncle was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. He said the first call his father, Robert F. Kennedy—who was the U.S. Attorney General at the time—made was to a CIA desk officer in Langley, Virginia, to ask, “Did your people do this?”