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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy in 2017
Personal details
Born
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.

(1954-01-17) January 17, 1954 (age 70)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)
Emily Black
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(m. 1982; div. 1994)​

Mary Richardson
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(m. 1994; div. 2010)​

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(m. 2014)​
ChildrenRobert III, Kathleen, Conor, Kyra, Finbar, and Aidan
Parent(s)Robert F. Kennedy
Ethel Skakel
RelativesSee Kennedy family
Alma materHarvard University (BA)
London School of Economics
University of Virginia (JD)
Pace University (LLM)

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) is an American environmental attorney, author, activist, entrepreneur, and radio host. Kennedy serves as president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance,[1] a non-profit environmental group which he helped found in 1999. He is the chairman of World Mercury Project (WMP),[2] an advocacy group that seeks to reduce and eliminate mercury exposure from industry and pharmaceuticals such as vaccines.

Kennedy served from 1986 until 2017 as senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC),[3] a non-profit environmental organization. He served from 1984 until 2017 as board member and chief prosecuting attorney for Hudson Riverkeeper.[4]

For over thirty years Kennedy has been a professor of Environmental Law at Pace University School of Law in White Plains, New York. Until August 2017, he also held the post as supervising attorney and co-director of Pace Law School’s Environmental Litigation Clinic, which he founded in 1987.[5] He is currently professor emeritus at Pace.[citation needed]

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 and three children's books.[6]

Early life

Kennedy was born in Washington, D.C. He is the third of eleven children of Senator and former Attorney General Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, and is a nephew of World War II casualty Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy Jr., U.S. President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, and longtime Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy were also his uncles. His aunt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded Special Olympics, and his aunt, Jean Kennedy Smith, is a former US ambassador to Ireland.[citation needed]

Kennedy was 9 years old when his uncle President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and 14 years old when his father was murdered while running for president in the 1968 election. Kennedy learned of his father’s shooting when he was at his Jesuit boarding school in North Bethesda, Maryland.[7] A few hours later he flew out to Los Angeles on vice-president Hubert Humphrey’s plane and was with his father when he died. Kennedy served as pallbearer in his father’s funeral, where he spoke and read excerpts from his father's speeches at the Mass commemorating his death at Arlington National Cemetery.[8] [9]Following his father's death, he was arrested for loitering and marijuana possession.[10]

After obtaining his high school diploma from Pomfret School in Connecticut, Kennedy continued his education at Harvard and the London School of Economics, graduating from Harvard College in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts in American History and Literature. He went on to earn a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a Master of Laws from Pace University.[11]

In 1983, Kennedy served as Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan. In 1984, Kennedy joined Riverkeeper as an investigator, and was promoted to senior prosecuting attorney[12] when he was admitted to the bar in 1985.[13]

Kennedy is an environmental law specialist and partner in the law firms of Morgan & Morgan PA and of Kennedy & Madonna, LLP,[14]and is an advocate for environmental justice.

Through litigation, lobbying, teaching, and public campaigns and activism, Kennedy has advocated for the protection of waterways, indigenous rights, and renewable energy.[15]

Riverkeeper

Kennedy litigated and supervised environmental enforcement lawsuits on the east coast estuaries on behalf of Hudson Riverkeeper and the Long Island Soundkeeper,[16] where he also served as a board member. Long Island Soundkeeper brought numerous lawsuits against cities and industries along the Connecticut and New York coastlines.[17] 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.[18] Kennedy also filed federal lawsuits to close the Pelham Bay landfill and the New York Athletic clubs, arguing that those facilities were interfering with public use of Long Island Sound.[19] On the Hudson, Kennedy brought a series of lawsuits against municipalities, including New York City, to properly treat sewage, and against industries, including, Consolidated Edison, General Electric and Exxon, to stop discharging pollution and to clean up legacy contamination.[20] [21]

In 1995, Kennedy helped lead the fight to turn back the anti-environmental legislation during the 104th Congress.[22] In 1997, Kennedy co-authored The Riverkeepers with John Cronin. The book is a history of the early Riverkeepers and a primer for the growing Waterkeeper movement.[23]

Drawing on his experience investigating and prosecuting polluters on behalf of the Waterkeepers, Kennedy has written extensively about environmental law enforcement. [24]

Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic

In 1987, Kennedy founded the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University School of Law, where he served for three decades as the clinic’s supervising attorney and co-director, and as Clinical Professor of Law.[25] Kennedy obtained a special order from the New York State Court of Appeals that permitted his 10 clinic students–second- and third-year law students–to practice law and to try cases against Hudson River polluters in state and federal court, under the supervision of Kennedy and his co-director, Professor Karl Coplan. The clinic’s full-time clients are Riverkeeper and Long Island Soundkeeper.[26]

The clinic has prosecuted numerous governments and companies for polluting Long Island Sound and the Hudson River and its tributaries.[27] The clinic argued cases to expand citizen access to the shoreline, and won hundreds of settlements for the Hudson Riverkeeper.[28] Kennedy and his students also sued dozens of municipal waste-water treatment plants to force compliance with the Clean Water Act.[29] In 2010, a Pace lawsuit forced ExxonMobil to clean up tens of millions of gallons of oil from legacy refinery spills in Newtown Creek in Brooklyn, New York.[30]

On April 11, 2001, Men’s Journal recognized Kennedy with its “Heroes” Award for his creation of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic.[31] Kennedy and his Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic received other awards for successful legal work cleaning up the environment.[32] The Pace Clinic became a model for similar environmental law clinics throughout the country including Rutgers,[33] Golden Gate, UCLA,[34] Widener,[35]and Boalt Hall at Berkeley.[36]


Politics

Environmental activism

Kennedy in 2017

In 1998, Kennedy, along with Chris Bartle and John Hoving, created a bottled-water company that donates all of its profits to Waterkeeper Alliance.[37] They named their Manhattan-based company Tear of the Clouds LLC, after the lake of the same name, the source of the Hudson River in the Adirondack Mountains.[38] Their product is bottled under the name Keeper Springs.[39] In 1999, Kennedy accused Rudy Giuliani, then Mayor of New York City, of putting his political ambitions above the protection of New York City's drinking water by failing to enforce a 1997 watershed agreement to regulate development around reservoirs which provided drinking water to the city. Kennedy insisted New York City's Department of Environmental Protection was becoming "an agent of destruction in the New York City's watershed."[40]

In April 2001, Kennedy was arrested for trespassing at Camp Garcia, the United States Navy training facility on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, where he and others were protesting of the use of a section of the island for training. The trespassing incident forced the suspension of live-fire exercises for almost three hours and resulted is Kennedy being sentenced to 30 days in jail by Judge Hector Laffitte on July 18, 2001. During trial, Kennedy was represented by former Governor of New York Mario Cuomo, [41][42] In February 2013, while protesting the Keystone Pipeline, Kennedy was arrested for blocking a thoroughfare in front of the White House during a protest. Kennedy's son Conor was also arrested.[43]

In a December 16, 2005 editorial for The New York Times, Kennedy argued, "As an environmentalist, I support wind power, including wind power on the high seas. I am also involved in siting wind farms in appropriate landscapes, of which there are many. But I do believe that some places should be off limits to any sort of industrial development. I wouldn't build a wind farm in Yosemite National Park. Nor would I build one on Nantucket Sound, which is exactly what the company Energy Management is trying to do with its Cape Wind project."[44] This position angered some environmentalists.[45]

In a 2005 book by conservative writer Peter Schweizer, it was claimed that Kennedy allegedly received royalty payments from two family-owned oil drilling companies, and that he used private jets while lecturing about the perils of global warming.[46]

On July 7, 2007, Kennedy appeared in New Jersey at the Live Earth event, where he gave a speech challenging the public to question the implied position of the energy industry that economic and environmental policies are mutually exclusive. He referred to several media personalities (Glenn Beck, John Stossel, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh among them) as "flat-Earthers" and "traitors."[47] Kennedy's speech concludes with the statement "And I will see all of you on the barricades." He describes himself as pro-life on the subject of abortion.[48] Kennedy also sits on the board of directors of the Food Allergy Initiative.[49]

In 2009, Kennedy collaborated on an article titled "The Energy of Bobby Kennedy Jr."[50] for the debut summer issue of Above, an environmentally-themed magazine based in London.

In May 2010, Kennedy was named one of Time.com's "Heroes for the Planet" for his success in helping Riverkeeper to restore the Hudson River.[51]

In June 2011, Kennedy appeared at select screenings of The Last Mountain produced by Bill Haney, and co-written by Haney and Peter Rhodes. The film depicts a battle in Appalachia between a local community and a large fossil fuel company over coal exploration. In October 2012, Kennedy gave a phone interview with Politico, where he called on environmentalists to direct their dissatisfaction towards the U.S. Congress, rather than President Barack Obama. Kennedy reasoned that Obama "didn't deliver" due to having a U.S. Congress "like we haven’t seen before in American history." Kennedy still wanted climate change to receive more attention in the 2012 presidential election, which was only a month away.[52]

On October 3, 2013, Kennedy voiced his belief that weighing economic concerns against environmental protection is a "false choice" during a speech at the Franklin and Marshall College.[53]

Kennedy's early environmental work is featured in two films by director Les Guthman: The Hudson Riverkeepers[54] and The Waterkeepers.[55] In September 2014, Kennedy voiced his wish that there would be a law which punished skeptics and deniers during an interview with Climate Depot during New York City's People's Climate March. He also accused politicians who failed to act on climate change policy as serving their own special interests.

In February 2015 Kennedy was among "notable" alumni of Harvard University including Natalie Portman, Darren Aronofsky and Susan Faludi who wrote an open letter to Harvard University demanding that it divest coal, gas, and oil companies from its $35.9 billion endowment.

Those students have done a remarkable job in garnering overwhelming student support for divestment, and the faculty too have delivered a strong message. But so far Harvard has not just refused to divest, they've doubled down by announcing the decision to buy stock in some of the dirtiest energy companies on the planet.

— Open letter to Harvard university from notable alumni, 2014, [56]

Personal Views

Political criticisms

Throughout President George W. Bush’s presidency, Kennedy remained a persistent critic of Bush’s environmental and energy policies. He charged Bush with defunding and corrupting federal science projects.[57] Kennedy’s February 2004 article in The Nation, “The Junk Science of George W. Bush,” in which he wrote, “The Bush Administration’s first instinct when it comes to science has been to suppress, discredit or alter facts it doesn’t like,” has been recognized among most censored articles of 2004.[58]

Kennedy was also critical of Bush’s hydrogen car proposal, which he characterized as a gift to the fossil fuel industry disguised as a green automobile.[59]

Kennedy wrote an article entitled, “Crimes Against Nature” about Bush’s environmental record.[60] The article, which was featured in the November 24, 2003 issue of Rolling Stone, was subsequently expanded into Kennedy’s New York Times best-selling book of the same name, published by HarperCollins.[61] Kennedy’s opposition to the environmental policies of the Bush administration earned him recognition as one of Rolling Stone’s “100 Agents of Change” on April 2, 2009.[62][63]

In October 2012, Kennedy gave a phone interview with Politico, where he called on environmentalists to direct their dissatisfaction towards the U.S. Congress, rather than President Barack Obama. Kennedy reasoned that Obama "didn't deliver" due to having a partisan U.S. Congress "like we haven’t seen before in American history."[64] He also accused politicians who failed to act on climate change policy as serving special interests and, selling out the public trust. He accused Charles and David Koch, the owners of Koch Industries, Inc., the nation’s largest privately owned oil company, of subverting democracy and for “making themselves billionaires by impoverishing the rest of us.”[65] Kennedy has spoken of the Koch Bothers as leading “the apocalyptical forces of Ignorance and Greed.”[66]

During the 2014 People’s Climate March, Kennedy voiced the opinion, "American politics is driven by two forces: One is intensity, and the other is money. The Koch brothers have all the money. They’re putting $300 million this year into their efforts to stop the climate bill. And the only thing we have in our power is people power, and that’s why we need to put this demonstration on the street."[67]

Food allergies

Kennedy was a founding board member of the Food Allergy Initiative. His son Conor suffers from anaphylaxis peanut allergies. Kennedy wrote the foreword to The Peanut Allergy Epidemic, in which he and the authors link increasing food allergies in children to certain vaccines that were approved beginning in 1989.[68]

Views on autism and vaccines

Kennedy is an outspoken opponent of the inclusion of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines. In June 2005, Kennedy authored an article in Rolling Stone and Salon.com titled "Deadly Immunity", alleging a government conspiracy to cover up connections between the vaccine preservative thimerosal and childhood autism.[69] The article contained a number of factual errors, leading Salon.com to issue five corrections and ultimately to retract the article completely on January 16, 2011. The retraction was motivated by accumulating evidence of errors and scientific fraud underlying the vaccine-autism claim.[70] In 2010, Previous to this retraction, Rolling Stone had inadvertently broken the link to Kennedy's article during a website redesign, but never considered retracting the story.[69][71] The article is still posted on Kennedy’s website.[72]

In April 2015, Kennedy promoted a film, Trace Amounts, which links autism to vaccinations. Kennedy discussed issues on April 24's Real Time with Bill Maher. At a screening in Sacramento, California, Kennedy described the alleged incidents of vaccinations causing autism as a "holocaust."[73]

On January 10, 2017, Kennedy met with President-elect Donald Trump. Following the meeting, Kennedy claimed that Trump offered him a position as chair of new commission on vaccine safety. However, Hope Hicks, a Trump Spokesperson, said that no decision had been made regarding setting up such a commission.[74]

The murder of Martha Moxley

In January 2003, Kennedy wrote a controversial article in The Atlantic Monthly entitled "A Miscarriage of Justice" arguing that, due to “media malpractice,” his cousin Michael Skakel had been falsely convicted of the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut. Kennedy's mother and Skakel's father are siblings. In the article, Kennedy insists that Michael's indictment "was triggered by an inflamed media, and that an innocent man is now in prison."

In July 2016, Kennedy released a New York Times bestselling book, entitled Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit. Kennedy argues that Skakel was railroaded by six men including former L.A. police detective, Mark Fuhrman; gossip columnist, Dominick Dunne; and Connecticut police officer, Frank Garr, each of whom, Kennedy claims, acted out of self-interest. IndieWire announced that FX Productions has obtained the rights to develop a multi-part TV series based on Kennedy’s book.[citation needed]

Views on JFK assassination and the Warren Commission

On January 11, 2013, during an interview with Charlie Rose at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas to celebrate the life and presidency of John F. Kennedy,[75] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he was convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald was not solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle. Kennedy Jr. also noted that his father Robert Kennedy was "fairly convinced" that others besides Oswald were involved in his brother's assassination and privately believed the Warren Commission report was a "shoddy piece of craftsmanship."[76]

Views on U.S. foreign policy

Kennedy has written extensively on foreign policy issues, beginning with a 1974 Atlantic Monthly article entitled, “Poor Chile,” discussing the overthrow of Chilean President, Salvador Allende. Kennedy also wrote editorials against the execution of Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. In 1975, he published an article in The Wall Street Journal, criticizing the use of assassination as a foreign policy tool. In 2005, he wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times decrying President Bush’s use of torture as anti-American. Senator Edward Kennedy entered the article into the Congressional Record.[77]

In an article entitled "Why the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria," published in Politico in February 2016, Kennedy referred to the "bloody history that modern interventionists like George W. Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio miss when they recite their narcissistic trope that Mideast nationalists ‘hate us for our freedoms.’ For the most part they don’t; instead they hate us for the way we betrayed those freedoms — our own ideals — within their borders." Kennedy blames the Syrian war on a pipeline dispute. He cites wiki-leaks documents proving that the CIA led military and intelligence planners to foment a Sunni uprising against Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, following his rejection of a proposed Qatar-Turkey pipeline through Syria in 2009, well before the Arab Spring. In 2013, Kennedy wrote an article for Rolling Stone exploring President John F. Kennedy’s difficult struggle with his own military and intelligence apparatus to keep America out of war and from becoming an imperial state.

Political endorsements

Kennedy served on the National Staff and as a State Coordinator for Edward M. Kennedy for President from 1979 to 1980. Prior to that he had served on Senator Kennedy’s 1970 and 1976 Massachusetts Senatorial Campaigns. He was a co-founder and a former board member of the New York League of Conservation Voters.[78][79]

Kennedy endorsed and campaigned extensively for Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 Presidential Campaign for Election. Kennedy openly opposed his friend Ralph Nader’s Green party presidential campaign, predicting that Nader’s effect could sink the Gore campaign and put George W. Bush into the White House. In the 2004 American presidential election, Kennedy endorsed John Kerry, noting his strong environmental record.[80]

In late 2007, Kennedy and his sisters Kerry and Kathleen announced that they would be endorsing Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Presidential Primary.[81] Following the Democratic Convention, Kennedy campaigned for Obama across the country.[82] After the election, he was named as a front-runner for Obama’s EPA administrator.[83]

Kennedy has been critical of the integrity of the voting process. In June 2006 he published an analysis in Rolling Stone magazine purporting to show that GOP operatives stole the 2004 election for President George W Bush. Kennedy’s conclusions were strongly attacked by Farhad Manjoo in a June 3, 2006 Salon.com article.[84] However, in a critical response to Monjoo’s attack, historian Eric Zuesse argued that Kennedy’s analysis had been correct.[85]

Kennedy has written frequent warnings about the ease of election hacking and the dangers of voter purges and voter ID laws. He wrote the introduction and a chapter in Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, a 2012 book on election hacking by investigative journalist Greg Palast.[86]

Kennedy at a taping of ETown during the 2008 Democratic National Convention

Political aspirations

Kennedy first considered running for political office in 2000, considering a run for United States Senator in New York.[87] After deciding not to run in that election, he then considered running in 2005 for Attorney General. With the possibility of a matchup against his then brother-in-law Andrew Cuomo generating media interest, Kennedy again decided not to run, despite being considered the frontrunner if he were to run.[88]

In a January 2007 interview in O: The Oprah Magazine, Kennedy said he would consider running for the potentially open seat of senator Hillary Clinton of New York if she were to win the 2008 presidential election.[89] His father was elected to the same seat in 1964, and held it for 41 months, until his death in 1968. Clinton ultimately did not win the election, but was instead chosen for United States Secretary of State. Kennedy announced on December 2, 2008 that he did not wish to be appointed to the U.S. Senate, feeling it would take too much time away from his family.[90]

Media work

Kennedy co-hosts the Ring of Fire radio program alongside Mike Papantonio,[91]even though Kennedy suffers from spasmodic dysphonia, a disorder that makes speech difficult, and causes the voice to sound quivery.[92] The show provides progressive news and commentary.

Kennedy has written two books and several articles on environmental issues. His articles have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Nation, Outside magazine, and The Village Voice.

Bibliography

Kennedy has authored or edited ten books on subjects ranging from the environment to science, biography and American heroes, including two bestsellers and three children's books.

  • Russell, Dick; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (2017). Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth And What it Means for Our Children. New York: Scribner. p. 304. ISBN 9781510721753.
  • Kennedy, Robert F, Jr. (2016). Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison For a Murder He Didn’t Commit. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. p. 240. ISBN 9781510701779.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Kennedy, Robert F, Jr., ed. (2014). Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury–a Known Neurotoxin–from Vaccines. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. p. 224. ISBN 1632206013.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  • Kennedy, Robert F, Jr. (2005). Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Highjacking Our Democracy. New York: HarperCollins. p. 256. ISBN 0-06-074687-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Cronin, John; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (1997). The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right. New York: Scribner. p. 304. ISBN 0684839083.
  • Kennedy, Robert F, Jr., ed. (1992). The Billings Collection. Boston: John F. Kennedy Library.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  • Kennedy, Robert F, Jr. (1978). Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr.: A biography. Putnam. ISBN 0-399-12123-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Children's books

Selected articles

Kennedy has penned numerous academic and general interest articles, as well as op-eds for magazines, journals, and newspapers. His writings have been included in anthologies of America’s Best Crime Writing,[93] Best Political Writing,[94]and Best Science Writing.[95] Kennedy’s writings have appeared in: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Houston Chronicle, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Esquire, New York Daily News, The Atlantic Monthly, and Huffington Post, among others. His writings range over diverse topics including oil, coal, green energy, election integrity, politics, the media, falconry, foreign policy, and civil rights. Kennedy is also a frequently published travel writer.

  • June 25, 2017 – “Meet the horsemen of our environmental apocalypse”. Salon.com[96]
  • Jan. 18, 2017 – “CDC Knew its Vaccine Program Was Exposing Children to Dangerous Mercury Levels Since 1999”. Ecowatch[97]
  • September 12, 2016 – “20 Year David and Goliath Fist Fight Saves Patagonia’s Futaleufú”. EcoWatch[98]
  • November 20, 2013 – “John F. Kennedy’s Vision of Peace”. Rolling Stone[99]
  • June 14, 2013 – “Make New York the solar hub for the East Coast”. Newsday [100]
  • March 25, 2009 – “Stopping Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining”. Washington Post[101]
  • December 8, 2009 – “The Next President’s First Task (A Manifesto)”. Vanity Fair[102]
  • June 28, 2007 – "What Must Be Done”. Rolling Stone[103]
  • May 2007 – “Texas Chainsaw Management”. Vanity Fair[104]
  • June 5, 2006 – “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?”. Rolling Stone[105]
  • June 3 - July 14, 2005 – “Deadly Immunity”. Rolling Stone[106]
  • February 13, 2005 – “Kyoto Treaty Takes Off Without U.S.”. Chicago Tribune[107]
  • March 8, 2004 – “The Junk Science of George W. Bush”. The Nation[108]
  • November 24, 2003 – “Crimes Against Nature”. Rolling Stone[109]
  • January/February 2003 – “A Miscarriage of Justice”.[110]
  • October 2001 – “Why Are We In Vieques?”. Outside[111]
  • February 8, 1996 – "Don't Let Congress Gut The Clean Air Act”. Newsday
  • April 21, 1994 – “The Threat to New York's Watershed”. New York Post
  • 1993 (with Steven P. Solow) – “Environmental Litigation as Clinical Education: A Case Study”. University of Oregon Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation Volume 8
  • August 26, 1992 – “Driving Out Conoco Disservice to Rain Forests”. The Houston Chronicle

Personal life

General Interests

Kennedy is a licensed master falconer, and has trained hawks since he was 11. He breeds hawks and falcons and is also licensed as a raptor propagator and a wildlife rehabilitator.[112] He holds permits for Federal Game Keeper, Bird Bander, and Scientific Collector. He was President of the New York State Falconer’s Association from 1988 to 1991.[113] In 1987, while serving on Governor Mario Cuomo’s New York State Falconry Advising Committee, Kennedy authored the examination to qualify apprentice falconers given by New York State. Later that year he wrote the New York State Apprentice Falconer's Manual, which was published by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and continues in use today.[114]

Kennedy is also a whitewater kayaker. His father introduced him and his siblings to whitewater kayaking during early trips down the Green and Yampa Rivers in Utah and Colorado, the Columbia River, the Middle Fork Salmon in Idaho, and the Upper Hudson Gorge. From 1976 to 1981, Kennedy was a partner and guide at a white water company, “Utopian,” based in West Forks, Maine. He organized and led several “first-descent” white-water expeditions to Latin America including three to hitherto unexplored rivers: the Apurimac, Peru, in 1975; the Atrato, Colombia, in 1979; and the Caroni,Venezuela, in 1982.[115] He made an early descent of Great Whale River in Northern Quebec, in 1993,[116]and has made many trips to Patagonia, Chile to run the Biobío River, the Futaleufú and other whitewater rivers.

In 2015, he took two of his sons to the Yukon to visit Mount Kennedy and run the Alsek River, a whitewater river fed by the Alsek Glacier, which flows off Mt. Kennedy. Mt. Kennedy was the highest unclimbed peak in Canada, when the Canadian Government named it for the assassinated American president, in 1964.[117]Kennedy’s father, Robert Kennedy, was the first to climb Mt. Kennedy in 1965.[118]

Marriages and children

Kennedy married Emily Ruth Black (born 1957) on April 3, 1982.[119] They had two children: Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy III (born 1984) and Kathleen Alexandra "Kick" Kennedy (born 1988). The couple separated in 1992 and divorced on March 25, 1994.[120]

On April 15, 1994, Kennedy married Mary Kathleen Richardson (1959–2012) aboard a research vessel on the Hudson River.[121] They had four children: Conor Richardson Kennedy (born 1994), Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy (born 1995), William Finbar "Finn" Kennedy (born 1997), and Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy (born 2001). On May 12, 2010, Kennedy filed for divorce from Mary; three days later she was charged with drunken driving. On May 16, 2012, Mary was found dead in a building on the grounds of her Mount Kisco, New York, home; the death was ruled by the Westchester County medical examiner to be suicide due to asphyxiation from hanging.[122]

Kennedy and actress-director Cheryl Hines married on August 2, 2014, at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.[123]

Controversies

In 1983, at age 29, Kennedy was arrested in a Rapid City, South Dakota airport for heroin possession after a search of his carry-on bag uncovered 0.0064 oz of the drug.[124] Upon entering a plea of guilty, Kennedy was sentenced to two years' probation, and 1,500 hours of community service by Presiding Judge Marshall P. Young.[125] Following his arrest, Kennedy voluntarily entered a drug treatment center.[126]

In 1999, Kennedy hired, for Riverkeeper, William Wegner, a fishery scientist and falconer who had been sentenced to five years and served three years in prison, after pleading guilty to federal criminal charges for smuggling bird eggs from Australia.[127] In 2000, Robert Boyle, Riverkeeper's founder and former president, fired Wegner, citing his criminal conviction, but Kennedy re-hired Wegner, believing he should be given a second chance. A majority of the Riverkeeper Board supported Kennedy’s decision, but seven members joined Boyle in resigning.[128]

In September 2013, The New York Post released excerpts from Kennedy's stolen 2001 diary, in which Kennedy described multiple affairs,[129] and penned his opinions about public figures.[130] Kennedy said the paper had printed "...excerpts from a 13-year-old diary illegally stolen from me...”.[130]

Selected awards and recognition

Over the course of his career, Kennedy has received numerous awards in his name and on behalf of organizations and causes that he has championed.

  • 2017, Earth Justice Mountain Heroes[131]
  • 2017, Foro La Region Award for “La Proteccion de los Recrsos Naturales”[132]
  • 2017, Moms Across America Healthy Communities Award
  • 2014, Stroud Award of Freshwater Excellence[133]
  • 2009, Rolling Stone “100 Agents of Change”[134]
  • 2008, USC Dornsife Sustainability Champion Award[135]
  • 2008, Theodre Gordon Flyfishers Conservation Award[136]
  • 2007, Vanity Fair “The Green Team”[137]
  • 2005, William O. Douglas Award, on behalf of the Waterkeeper Alliance[138]
  • 2004, Riverkeeper’s Environmental Excellence Award
  • 2004, Marshall P. Madison Award
  • 2003, Professional Resource Award, NY State Council of Trout Unlimited[139]
  • 2001, Distinguished Service Award presented at Pace Law School’s 25th Anniversary [140]
  • 2001, Men’s Journal “Heroes” Award[141]
  • 2001, Louisiana Environmental Action Award
  • 2000, 12th Annual Manhattan Award[142]
  • 2000, Jacques Sartisky Peace Award[143]
  • 2000, New York State Champion of the Environment[144]
  • 1999, Time Magazine’s “Heroes of the Planet”[145]
  • 1999, Aquarium Conservation Award
  • 1998, William E. Ricker Resource Conservation Award[146]
  • 1998, Water Watch Award – New York National Boat Show Awards, on behalf of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic
  • 1997, EPA Environmental Quality Award[147]
  • 1997, The Brave 40 Award from NYC Department of Environmental Conservation[148]
  • 1997, Thomas Berry Environmental Award, presented to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic[149]
  • 1996, Great Steward of the Hudson Valley - Storm King Award for New York City Watershed Agreement
  • 1995, Green Star Award presented by the Environmental Action Coalition[150]
  • 1991, Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Award[151]

See also

References

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