Getty Images Rory Kennedy thought she was through with Boeing.
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind “Last Days in Vietnam” and “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib” — and youngest child of late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy — had spent years making “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,” a 2022 documentary exploring the “profits over people” approach at the airplane manufacturer, from outsourcing its parts to covering up safety issues, that led to a pair of its 737 MAX planes crashing within five months of each other, claiming 346 lives. And then John Barnett, the chief whistleblower against Boeing and key subject of her doc, was found dead in his car in March of 2024, one day prior to his third deposition, under what Kennedy calls “quite suspicious circumstances.”
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