Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Special

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Special Synopsis

Hosted by Tom Brokaw, this primetime special honored both the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and the fall of the Berlin Wall in that momentous year for human rights around the world, 1989.  The broadcast begins with a stirring speech by Sen. Edward Kennedy, recalling is brother Robert Kennedy's watershed trips to Berlin and South Africa.  The keynote speech is by Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's Solidarity Movement and later president of Poland.

Film Credits

Producer

  1. Ricki Green
  2. Les Guthman

Writer

  1. Tom Brokaw
  2. Les Guthman

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