BS: Medals for Goodman,Schwerner and Chaney

Subject: BS: Medals for Goodman,Schwerner and Chaney
From: Wesley S
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 09:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is presenting the nation's highest civilian honor to 19 artists, activists, public servants and others.

Posthumous medals will go to six individuals, among them civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were slain in 1964 as they participated in a historic voter registration drive in Mississippi.
Other posthumous awards will go to choreographer Alvin Ailey and Reps. Patsy Mink of Hawaii and Edward Roybal of California, founder of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

The distinguished group receiving a Presidential Medal of Freedom includes actress Meryl Streep, Ethel Kennedy, widow of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy, singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder and Rep. John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat and the longest-serving member of Congress. Dingell is retiring at the end of the year.
Others being recognized at a White House ceremony Monday are composer Stephen Sondheim, NBC journalist Tom Brokaw and author Isabel Allende.

The list also includes Native American activist Suzan Harjo, actress Marlo Thomas, economist Robert Solow, golfer Charles Sifford, former Rep. Abner Mikva of Illinois and physicist Mildred Dresselhaus.


The Presidential Medal of Freedom is reserved for individuals who have made "meritorious contributions" to U.S. security, world peace or cultural endeavors.

Subject: RE: BS: Medals for Goodman,Schwerner and Chaney
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 01:14 PM

Those Three Are on my Mind

Subject: RE: BS: Medals for Goodman,Schwerner and Chaney
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 01:46 PM

Richard Farina wrote a wonderful song avout them. I believe the song is called Michael, Andrew and James.

Subject: RE: BS: Medals for Goodman,Schwerner and Chaney
From: Jack Campin
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 02:13 PM

What did Ethel Kennedy ever achieve except not being dead?

Subject: RE: BS: Medals for Goodman,Schwerner and Chaney
From: Wesley S
Date: 25 Nov 14 - 03:31 PM

From Wikipedia - that bastion of truth and accuracy....


Ethel Skakel Kennedy (born April 11, 1928) the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a prominent member of the Kennedy family. She founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, a nonprofit charitable organization that works to realize Robert Kennedy's dream of a peaceful and just world by advancing human rights.

Subject: RE: BS: Medals for Goodman,Schwerner and Chaney
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 02:47 PM

Merryl Streep? Really? Marlo Thomas? That girl?

Subject: RE: BS: Medals for Goodman,Schwerner and Chaney
From: GUEST,guest murrbob
Date: 26 Nov 14 - 03:45 PM

Glad to see Charlie Sifford receive the award. He endured more racial intolerance than Jackie Robinson on the PGA circuit starting in 1961. He opened the world of golf to African American, Hispanics and Asians.