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Medals of Freedom Awarded to 26 Living Figures and Posthumous Honorees
Twenty six living individuals plus slain President John F Kennedy and the late Pope John XXIII received the Medal of Freedom in a White House ceremony led by President Johnson. The honors, announced earlier and posthumously awarded, honored diverse leaders in government science business and the arts, with personal citations praising Kennedy and the Pope for peace and human dignity.
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Pope John
Mr. Kennedy
Washington
John F. Kennedy
John XXIII
Kennedy
Johnson
White House
Jacqueline Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
United States
Brotherhood of Man
Angier Biddle Duke
State Department
Duke
Ralph Bunche
United Nations
Ellsworth Bunker
James B. Conant
Harvard
Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
Robert A. Lovett
Defense
John J. McCloy
Jean Monnet
Luis Munoz Marin
Puerto Rico
J. Clifford MacDonald
Tampa
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
E. B. White
Edmund Wilson
Europe
Bablo. Casals
George Ball
Kennedy I
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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