Thursday, November 21, 2013

Oprah Winfrey awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom on eve of anniversary of Kennedy assassination

U.S. President Barack Obama presents Oprah Winfrey with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wednesday, November 20, 2013. PHOTO/Evan Vucci/AP

U.S. President Barack Obama opened a day of tributes to former President John F. Kennedy on Wednesday by bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom on prominent Americans, 50 years after Kennedy was assassinated weeks short of the medal’s first award ceremony.

Obama presented the medal, the highest award the U.S. gives a civilian, to

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