Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born: ), is an American politician and environmental lawyer.
==History==
Kennedy was born on January 17, 1954. He is the third of eleven children of senator and attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy. He is a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy.https://archive.org/details/rfkjrrobertfkenn0000oppe Kennedy grew up at his family's homes in McLean, Virginia, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.https://abcnews.go.com/Business/photos/newlyweds-cheryl-hines-robert-kennedy-jr-buy-malibu-25677704/image-25678078
Kennedy learned of his father's shooting when he was at Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boarding school in North Bethesda, Maryland.https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/oprah-interviews-robert-kennedy-jr/all A few hours later, he flew to Los Angeles on Vice President Hubert Humphrey's plane, along with his elder sister Kathleen and elder brother Joe, and was with his father when he died.https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/07/archives/robert-kennedys-words-sung-in-mass-marking-assassination.html 
Kennedy lived with a surrogate family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after his father passed. Kennedy was expelled from two boarding schools for using drugs. In August 1970, Kennedy and his cousin Bobby Shriver were arrested in Barnstable, Massachusetts, for marijuana possession and were placed on 13 months' probation.https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/07/archives/kennedy-shriver-boys-on-probation.htmlhttps://newsroom.ap.org/editorial-photos-videos/detail?itemid=ff0d556c9ee5da11af9f0014c2589dfb&mediatype=photo 
On April 5, 2023, Kennedy filed his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2024 presidential election.https://apnews.com/article/robert-kennedy-jr-presidential-campaign-9fb5ed5c8e1fd31d2a4458d44b086593 On October 9, 2023, he announced he was running as an independent.https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/09/politics/kennedy-independent-campaign/index.html
==Controversy==
===Super Bowl LVIII commercial===
During the , his campaign commercial was aired, showing his political campaign.https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4463397-rfk-jr-super-bowl-ad-robert-f-kennedy-jr/ However, the commercial is similar to John F. Kennedy's campaign song. His family has criticized for replacing John's image with himself.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/12/robert-f-kennedy-super-bowl-ad/ He has since apologized.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/12/robert-f-kennedy-jr-apologizes-super-bowl-ad-jfkhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68275635
==Family==
*Robert F. Kennedy (father/deceased)
*Ethel Kennedy (mother)
*Emily Black (first wife)
*Mary Richardson (second wife/deceased)
*Cheryl Hines (wife)
*Conor Kennedy (son)
*Bobby Kennedy III (son)
*Aiden Caohman Vieques Kennedy (son)
*William Finbar Kennedy (son)
*Kathleen Alexandra Kennedy (daughter)
*Kyra Kennedy (daughter)
*John F. Kennedy (uncle\deceased)
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