I took RFK Jr’s phone call long ago. Now I regret it | Margaret Sullivan

When I was the New York Times public editor, Kennedy vented on the phone - his ugly theories have sullied the family name

My assistant in the New York Times public editor's office said Robert F Kennedy was on the phone. Did I want to take the call?

This was roughly a decade ago, but I still remember being momentarily confused. Assassinated in 1968, RFK was long gone, and though we did get some unusual calls in the public editor's office, they tended to be from the living.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture