Robert F. Kennedy and Susan Ford are seen during a 1978 TV interview.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s early life was overshadowed by his father's assassination.
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s early life was overshadowed by the murder of his father.
  • He later struggled with a drug addiction.
  • After his most humiliating moment, Kennedy reinvented himself as an environmentalist.

Robert F. Kennedy's children have spent a lifetime trying to add their marks to their slain father's legacy. They made history in public service, followed his footsteps into Congress, and contributed to an Academy Award-nominated documentary. Like their relatives born into the generation after Camelot, some struggled to shake the tinge of tragedy and scandal that continues to hang around the famous family.