Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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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- 2025 · The Donald Trump Show as Self (archive footage)
- 2025 · RFK: Legacy as Self
- 2025 · Confessions of a CEO: My Life in an Out-of-Balance World as Self
- 2025 · The Matt Gaetz Show as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · Biohack Yourself: Lifespanning Our Vitality as Self
- 2024 · Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · Trump vs. Kamala: Race for the White House as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · First Do No Pharm as Self
- 2024 · God Bless Bitcoin as Self
- 2024 · The Tucker Carlson Show as Self
- 2024 · The Trust Fall: Julian Assange as Self
- 2023 · Tucker on X as
- 2023 · Tucker on X as Self - Guest
- 2022 · The Real Anthony Fauci as Self - Environmental Lawyer, Author of 'The Real Anthony Fauci'
- 2022 · Virulent: The Vaccine War as Self - Attorney
- 2022 · Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics as Self
- 2022 · Covidland: The Shot as Self
- 2021 · JFK: Destiny Betrayed as Self
- 2021 · JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as Self
- 2021 · Dis/Informed as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Silenced, As Mercury Rises as Self
- 2021 · The Anti-Vax Conspiracy as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · 1986: The ACT as Self
- 2020 · A Better Way as
- 2020 · Killing John F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Vaxxed II: The People's Truth as Self
- 2019 · Mandate for Choice as Himself
- 2018 · The Alec Baldwin Show as Self
- 2017 · Poisoning Paradise as
- 2016 · The Best Democracy Money Can Buy as Self
- 2016 · Good Fortune as Self
- 2016 · Climate Hustle as Self
- 2015 · DARK SIDE of the GREENS as Self
- 2014 · A Dangerous Game as Self
- 2014 · Food Chains as
- 2013 · JFK: The Private President as Self
- 2011 · The Last Mountain as Self
- 2010 · Smash His Camera as Self
- 2008 · Dominick Dunne: After the Party as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 · Al Franken: God Spoke as Self
- 2005 · Earth to America as Self
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as Self
- 2004 · Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable as Self
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2000 · The Waterkeepers as Himself
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self