Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist anti-vaccine activist, and serving since February 2025 as the 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Jan 5, 2025 · When RFK Jr. was only 14 years old, his father Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated after he won the California primary for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. Today, RFK Jr. is the spitting image of his father, but …

Jul 31, 2023 · President Bill Clinton chats with Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy, and her son, Robert Kennedy Jr., before the start of a memorial mass, Sunday, June 6, 1993 at the Arlington National...

Bobby Kennedy talks about the tragedies of his Father and Uncle's deaths and calls them "an occupational hazard". He discusses his future...will it be politics, or not? Bobby had just written a...

Jul 31, 2023 · Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and his children turn away after paying their respects at the casket of Mary Richardson Kennedy, in St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Mass., Saturday, May 19, 2012. Mary Richardson Kennedy was found dead of an apparent suicide last week at her home in Bedford, N.Y. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) Michael Dwyer

Mar 6, 2025 · From a young age, RFK Jr. embedded himself in some of America’s finest institutions. Both of his parents made sure that he and his siblings got an education that was fitting for future leaders. Robert Jr. started his life at Georgetown Prep School, a …

Jul 10, 2023 · RFK Jr.'s troubled adolescent years came after his father was assassinated in 1968. He held his mother Ethel's hand as they walked out of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan behind RFK's...

Independent Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., against a mural of images of him as a young man, hosts Cesar Chavez Day to celebrate the... RFK Jr. at Union Station. Cesar Chavez Day.

Mar 26, 2024 · One of 11 children born to Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy—a former Democratic senator for New York and U.S. attorney general, who was assassinated in 1968—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the nephew of...

3 days ago · U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited the epicenter of Texas' still-growing measles outbreak on Sunday, the same day a funeral was held for a second young child ...