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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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-vacc…
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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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2026
By Dawn's Early Light
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2025
The Rise of RFK Jr.
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2025
The Donald Trump Show
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2025
RFK: Legacy
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2025
My View with Lara Trump
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2024
Biohack Yourself: Lifespanning Our Vitality
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2024
Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty
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2024
Trump vs. Kamala: Race for the White House
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2024
First Do No Pharm
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2024
God Bless Bitcoin
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2024
INactive, Americaʼs Silent Killer
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2024
The Tucker Carlson Show
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2024
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
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2022
The Real Anthony Fauci
Movie Self - Environmental Lawyer, Author of 'The Real Anthony Fauci'
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2022
Virulent: The Vaccine War
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2022
Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics
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2022
Covidland: The Shot
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2021
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
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2021
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
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2021
Dis/Informed
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2021
Silenced, As Mercury Rises
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2021
The Anti-Vax Conspiracy
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2021
Tucker Carlson Today
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2021
Medical Racism
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2020
1986: The ACT
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2020
A Better Way
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2020
Killing John F. Kennedy
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2020
Vaxxed II: The People's Truth
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2019
Mandate for Choice
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2018
The Alec Baldwin Show
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2018
American Dynasties: The Kennedys
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2017
Poisoning Paradise
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2016
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
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2016
Good Fortune
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2016
Climate Hustle
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2015
DARK SIDE of the GREENS
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2014
A Dangerous Game
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2014
Food Chains
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2013
JFK: The Private President
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