Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Acting
Born 1954-01-17
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since 2025. A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of senator and former U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy began his career as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan. In the mid-1980s, he joined two nonprofits focused on environmental protection: Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). In 1986, he became an adjunct professor of environmental law at Pace University School of Law, and in 1987 he founded Pace's Environmental Litigation Clinic. In 1999, Kennedy founded the nonprofit environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance. He first ran as a Democrat and later started an independent campaign in the 2024 United States presidential election, before withdrawing from the race and endorsing Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Since 2005, Kennedy has promoted vaccine misinformation and public-health conspiracy theories, including the chemtrail conspiracy theory, HIV/AIDS denialism, and the scientifically disproved claim of a causal link between vaccines and autism. He has drawn criticism for fueling vaccine hesitancy amid a social climate that gave rise to the deadly measles outbreaks in Samoa and Tonga.
Kennedy is the founder and former chairman of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group and proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. He has written books including The Riverkeepers (1997), Crimes Against Nature (2004), The Real Anthony Fauci (2021), and A Letter to Liberals (2022).
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Filmography
The Mike Douglas Show
The Colbert Report
Real Time with Bill Maher
Frontline
The Rachel Maddow Show
The Tucker Carlson Show
My View with Lara Trump
Tucker Carlson Today
The Alec Baldwin Show
One Planet
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
Overheard with Evan Smith
Food Chains
Poisoning Paradise
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Good Fortune
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
The Donald Trump Show
Smash His Camera
Earth to America
The Waterkeepers
God Bless Bitcoin
The Real Anthony Fauci
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Dominick Dunne: After the Party
By Dawn's Early Light
The Anti-Vax Conspiracy
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
The Rise of RFK Jr.
Vaxxed II: The People's Truth
A Dangerous Game
The Last Mountain
Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty
First Do No Pharm
RFK: Legacy
Al Franken: God Spoke
The Vaccine War
Killing John F. Kennedy
1986: The ACT
DARK SIDE of the GREENS
Confessions of a CEO: My Life in an Out-of-Balance World
JFK: The Private President
Trump vs. Kamala: Race for the White House
Climate Hustle
One Water
Dis/Informed
Covidland: The Shot
A Better Way
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
Virulent: The Vaccine War
Mandate for Choice
Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics
INactive, Americaʼs Silent Killer
Biohack Yourself: Lifespanning Our Vitality
Medical Racism
Silenced, As Mercury Rises
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