Robert Francis Kennedy is an American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is also the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group.
He was born on January 17, 1954. A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of the U.S. attorney general and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and a nephew of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy.
Kennedy began his career as an assistant district attorney in New York City. In the mid-1980s, later he joined two nonprofits that emphasized environmental protection: Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council