The Rise of RFK Jr., Part 3: A Movement Finds Its Moment
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
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🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
As COVID-19 upends daily life, RFK Jr. emerges as a leading voice of dissent. Continuing FRONTLINE’s serialized audio adaptation of The Rise of RFK Jr., Raney Aronson-Rath and filmmaker Michael Kirk examine how the pandemic unified his beliefs, expanded his audience, and propelled him from the fringes into the national spotlight.
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| 0:00.0 | During the lockdowns, more and more people saw that things didn't make sense. |
| 0:07.0 | And they just thought maybe we're being lied to. |
| 0:10.0 | Bobby Kennedy is saying it's wrong to be shutting down my church. |
| 0:14.0 | I thought he was crazy, but I agree with him there. What else is he saying? |
| 0:17.0 | If you take the vaccine, you're 500% more likely to die of a heart attack over the next six |
| 0:26.0 | months than if you don't. |
| 0:27.5 | Dear Senators, now that Bobby has been nominated by President Trump to be Secretary |
| 0:33.1 | of Health and Human Services, a position that would put him in charge of the health of the American |
| 0:39.1 | people. I feel an obligation to speak out. Today on the Frontline Dispatch, part three of our series, |
| 0:46.3 | The Rise of RFK Jr. Robert F. Kennedy is not going to be the next president of the United States, |
| 0:51.4 | and it's looking more and more like he might not even impact the outcome. |
| 0:55.0 | We've been listening to Frontline's new documentary |
| 0:57.4 | and speaking to its director Michael Kirk, |
| 1:00.3 | and it's here in part three |
| 1:01.9 | that the Robert Kennedy Jr. that we all now know |
| 1:05.5 | steps forward during the COVID pandemic |
| 1:07.8 | and his message finds an audience. |
| 1:11.6 | Tonight I'm very pleased to welcome a man. |
| 1:14.6 | He is a great person. |
| 1:16.6 | I've known him for so long. |
| 1:18.6 | For the past 16 months, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. |
| 1:23.6 | I'm Rainy Ernst & Roth, editor-in-chief, |
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