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Barack Obama awards Presidential Medals of Freedom: Watch live video stream here

11/22/2016
U.S. President Barack Obama is bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 21 recipients at the White House on Tuesday afternoon.

Among the activists, scientists, philanthropists, athletes and artists being honored are Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Lorne Michaels, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross and Cicely Tyson.

Former athletes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan, as well as longtime Dodgers baseball broadcaster Vin Scully, are also being recognized, while posthumous awards are being granted to Blackfeet Tribal community leader Elouise Cobell and Rear Adm. Grace Hopper.

Other recipients include philanthropists Bill Gates and Melinda Gates, architect Frank Gehry, sculpture and landscape artist Maya Lin, and polymath physicist Richard Garwin.


TAGS: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar  Ellen DeGeneres  Diana Ross  Tom Hanks  Robert De Niro  Robert Redford  Bruce Springsteen  Lorne Michaels  Cicely Tyson  Bill Gates  Barack Obama  Vin Scully  Michael Jordan 


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