In September 1983, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fell ill on a flight to Rapid City, S.D.
By dint of his famous name, Mr. Kennedy, then 29 and fresh out of law school, was taken to a V.I.P.
By his own account, Mr. Kennedy, who later pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possessing heroin, had become addicted to the drug in his teens, as he struggled to cope with the assassination of his father.
Two days after the airplane episode, he checked himself into a New Jersey drug treatment center.
Now Mr. Kennedy is President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to be health secretary, a nomination he landed after a renegade presidential campaign in which he cast his life as a redemption story.
Persons:
Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Kennedy, Donald J, “, Kennedy’s
Locations:
Rapid City, S.D, New Jersey