Robert F Kennedy Jr apologizes for Anne Frank comparison in anti-vax speech
by Associated Press in Washington from on (#5VD9E)
- Kennedy's remarks at Washington rally widely condemned
- Wife Cheryl Hines says reference to Frank reprehensible'
The anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr apologized on Tuesday for suggesting things are worse for people living under Covid restrictions and mandates than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years.
His wife, the actor Cheryl Hines, who appears in the HBO hit Curb Your Enthusiasm, distanced herself from her husband in her own tweet on the subject. She called the reference to Frank reprehensible and insensitive".
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