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How RFK Jr. is undermining the legacy of his uncle, JFK, by upending vaccination policy in the U.S.

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published September 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM HST

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer about how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is upending generations of conventional wisdom by changing the way the U.S. handles vaccines.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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