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[1] and public-health conspiracy theories,[2] including the chemtrail conspiracy theory,[3] HIV/AIDS denialism,[4] and the scientifically disproved claim of a causal link between vaccines and autism.[5] He has drawn criticism for fueling vaccine hesitancy amid a social climate that gave rise to the deadly measles outbreaks in Samoa and Tonga.[6]

Kennedy is the founder and former chairman[7] 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).

Academy Award winning Oliver Stone has written and directed over 20 feature films, among them some of the most influential films of the last decades. Some have been at deep odds with conventional myth—films such as “Platoon” (1986), “Born on the Fourth of July” (1989), “JFK” (1991), “Natural Born Killers” (1994), and “Nixon” (1995). Stone’s films have often reached wide audiences and have had significant cultural impact. These include “Salvador” (1985), deeply critical of the U.S. Government’s involvement in Central America; “Wall Street” (1987), an exposé of America’s new capitalism; “World Trade Center” (2006), a true story of two 9/11 survivors; “The Doors” (1991), a poetic look at Jim Morrison’s ecstatic music; and “Snowden” (2016), the international story of a recent American whistleblower.

His other films include “Any Given Sunday” (1999), an unconventional view of the world of American sports; “Alexander” (2004), an epic historical drama; “W.” (2008), a satirical view of former U.S. President George W. Bush; and “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” (2010), a realistic sequel about the 2008 financial crash. In addition to “Natural Born Killers,” Stone has made a series of crime-related films—“U Turn” (1997) and “Savages” (2012), both dark in tone and humor.

His documentaries include three on Fidel Castro—“Comandante” (2003), “Looking for Fidel” (2004), and “Castro in Winter” (2012); one on South America, “South of the Border” (2009), prominently featuring Hugo Chavez and six other Presidents in a continent undergoing huge social changes; and “Persona Non Grata” (2003) on Israel- Palestine relations.

His later documentaries include “The Untold History of the United States” (Showtime, 2012), a monumental 12-hour interrogation of the conventional, triumphalist narrative of U.S. History; “The Putin Interviews” (Showtime, 2017), a four-part conversation with the Russian President; “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass” (2021), a re-examination of the assassination in the wake of his landmark 1991 film; “Nuclear Now” (2023), which proposes common sense solutions to our world’s urgent climate crisis; and the upcoming “Lula” (2025), a series of conversations with then-former Brazilian President Lula da Silva in the leadup to his historic re-election against Jair Bolsonaro.

Stone was born September 15, 1946 in New York City. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry in Vietnam in 1967-68 and was decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor. After returning from Vietnam, he completed his undergraduate studies at NYU Film School in 1971.

A Graduate of Princeton University, Sean Stone has grown up in the film world, having acted since childhood in his father Oliver Stone’s films before apprenticing under his father on Alexander, shooting the behind-the-scenes documentaries; on W., as an Editorial Consultant; and on The Untold History of the United States, as an Associate Editor. Sean Stone starred in and directed his first feature film Greystone Park in 2012. A graduate of the Baron Brown Studio, he has starred in multiple features including Night Walk, Union Bound, and Fury of the Fist and the Golden Fleece, which he also wrote. He has directed the documentaries A Century of War, Hollywood, D.C. MetaHuman with Deepak Chopra as well as the docuseries Best Kept Secret, and All the President's Men on Tucker Carlson Network. He formerly hosted the interview program Buzzsaw, on Gaia TV, as well as the news show Watching the Hawks for RT America.

Over the past 25 years, Rob Wilson has worked with filmmaker Oliver Stone and produced Stone’s documentaries including The Untold History of the United States, South of the Border, and The Putin Interviews.

He co-produced Stone’s feature film Snowden and executive produced Jim Jarmusch’s documentary Gimme Danger on the legendary band The Stooges. Most recently, Rob produced Stone’s JFK Revisited, Nuclear Now, and co-directed with Stone the documentary Lula, a portrait of Brazilian President Lula da Silva, which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.