Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. is an anti-vaccine activist and believes in the scientifically debunked link between vaccines and autism. Kennedy is an environmental law specialist and partner in the law firms of Morgan & Morgan PA and of Kennedy & Madonna, LLP. He is the president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group that he helped found in 1999. Kennedy co-hosts Ring of Fire, a nationally syndicated American radio program, and has written or edited ten books.
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Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. is an anti-vaccine activist and believes in the scientifically debunked link between vaccines and autism. He is the president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group that he helped found in 1999. Kennedy co-hosts Ring of Fire, a nationally syndicated American radio program, and has written or edited ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers. Kennedy is an environmental law specialist and partner in the law firms of Morgan & Morgan PA and of Kennedy & Madonna, LLP. Through litigation, lobbying, teaching, and public campaigns and activism, Kennedy has advocated for the protection of waterways, indigenous rights, and renewable energy. In 2018, the National Trial Lawyers Association awarded Kennedy and his trial team Trial Team of the Year for their work winning a USD 289 million jury verdict in Dewayne \”Lee\” Johnson v Monsanto. Kennedy’s aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded Special Olympics, and another aunt, Jean Kennedy Smith, is a former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland. Kennedy learned of his father’s shooting when he was at Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boarding school in North Bethesda, Maryland. He was 9 years old in 1963 when his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated, and 14 yearsold in 1968 when his father was assassinated while running for president in the 1968 Democratic presidential primaries. Kennedy grew up at his family’s homes in McLean, Virginia, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts in American History and Literature.
He went on to earn a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia and a Master of Laws from Pace University. In 1986, Kennedy won a landmark case against Remington Arms Trap and Skeet Gun Club in Stratford, Connecticut, that ended the practice of shooting lead shot into Long Island Sound. In 1997, Kennedy worked with John Cronin to write The Riverkeepers, a history of the early Waterkeepers movement and a primer for the Waterkeeper movement. In 1987, Kennedy founded the Environmental Litigation Litigation Clinic, which he founded in 1987. Kennedy has written extensively about environmental law and enforcement on behalf of Hudson Riverkeeper. He has also written about environmental enforcement law and prosecuting polluters on the early Hudson Riverkeepers. In 1995, Kennedy advocated for repeal of the anti-environmental legislation during the 104th Congress. Kennedy was a pallbearer in his father’s funeral, where he spoke and read excerpts from his dad’s speeches at the Mass commemorating his death at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1998, Kennedy was named one of the top ten environmental lawyers in the United States by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He is currently a professor emeritus at Pace University School of Law. In August 2017, he also held the post as supervising attorney and co-director of Pace Law School’s Environmentallitigation Clinic. He is an advocate for environmental justice.
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