Acting · Washington, District of Columbia, USA · Born January 17, 1954
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).
MovieBy Dawn's Early Light
2026
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MovieThe Rise of RFK Jr.
2025
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MovieRFK: Legacy
2025
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TVThe Donald Trump Show
2025
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TVMy View with Lara Trump
2025
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MovieConfessions of a CEO: My Life in an Out-of-Balance World
2025
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MovieBiohack Yourself: Lifespanning Our Vitality
2024
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MovieTrump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty
2024
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MovieTrump vs. Kamala: Race for the White House
2024
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MovieFirst Do No Pharm
2024
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MovieGod Bless Bitcoin
2024
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MovieINactive, Americaʼs Silent Killer
2024
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TVThe Tucker Carlson Show
2024
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MovieThe Trust Fall: Julian Assange
2024
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MovieThe Real Anthony Fauci
2022
as Self - Environmental Lawyer, Author of 'The Real Anthony Fauci'
MovieVirulent: The Vaccine War
2022
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MovieShots: Eugenics to Pandemics
2022
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MovieCovidland: The Shot
2022
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TVJFK: Destiny Betrayed
2021
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MovieJFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
2021
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MovieDis/Informed
2021
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MovieSilenced, As Mercury Rises
2021
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MovieThe Anti-Vax Conspiracy
2021
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TVTucker Carlson Today
2021
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Movie1986: The ACT
2020
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MovieA Better Way
2020
MovieKilling John F. Kennedy
2020
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MovieVaxxed II: The People's Truth
2020
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MovieMandate for Choice
2019
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TVThe Alec Baldwin Show
2018
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TVAmerican Dynasties: The Kennedys
2018
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TVVelshi
2017
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MoviePoisoning Paradise
2017
MovieThe Best Democracy Money Can Buy
2016
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MovieGood Fortune
2016
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MovieClimate Hustle
2016
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MovieDARK SIDE of the GREENS
2015
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MovieA Dangerous Game
2014
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MovieFood Chains
2014
MovieJFK: The Private President
2013
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MovieThe Last Mountain
2011
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TVOverheard with Evan Smith
2010
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MovieSmash His Camera
2010
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The Vaccine War
2010
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Dominick Dunne: After the Party
2008
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TVThe Rachel Maddow Show
2008
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MovieOne Water
2008
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MovieAl Franken: God Spoke
2006
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MovieEarth to America
2005
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TVThe Colbert Report
2005
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MovieIndian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
2004
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TVReal Time with Bill Maher
2003
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TVJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
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The Waterkeepers
2000
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TVFrontline
1983
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TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
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MoviePlague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed
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One Planet
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