Accession Number: NLJFK2001-C17K:22 (crop) Description: 2001 Profile in Courage Award recipient President Gerald Ford with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, May 21, 2001. Date:May 21, 2001 Creator: John F
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Profile in Courage Award Committee members Ken Feinberg, Elaine Jones, Paul Kirk Jr., Al Hunt, and Jack Schlossberg.
On Sunday, May 22, 2022 at 8:15 p.m. ET, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, will present the 2022 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Awards in live-streamed ceremony. In an
2023 Profile in Courage Award Ceremony
The 2023 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award® will be presented to five women Senators from South Carolina, and a special International Profile in Courage Award will honor South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award® was created in 1989 by members of President Kennedy's family to honor President John F. Kennedy and to recognize and celebrate the quality of political courage that he admired most.
John F. Kennedy had long been interested in the topic of political courage, beginning with his senior thesis at Harvard. The thesis, later published as Why England Slept, was a study of the failure of
Profile in Courage Award Committee Members Al Hunt and Caroline Kennedy present the Profile in Courage Award to Senator Edward M. Kennedy in Washington, DC, March 8, 2009. Date: March 8, 2009
In December 2002, Alberto J. Mora, then general counsel of the United States Navy, was alerted by Navy investigators to reports that detainees held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay were being
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"For the scientist, the moment is the Nobel or the Lasker; for the journalist, the Pulitzer; the actor, the Oscar. For those in government, it is the Kennedy." - Governor Lowell Weicker
The John F
The 2012 Profile in Courage Award is presented to Marsha Ternus, David Baker and Michael Streit for their demonstrated political courage and judicial independence in upholding, in the face of popular
From his inspirational 2008 campaign until his final weeks in office, Barack H. Obama consistently reflected in so many ways, big and small, the definition of courage that John F. Kennedy cited in the
Bill Ratliff, former state senator and one-time lieutenant governor of Texas, has been hailed as one of the state's greatest leaders, a thoughtful and dutiful public servant who routinely risked his
As the Mayor of Houston, Texas, Bill White marshaled the resources and goodwill of his city to provide refuge and essential services to hundreds of thousands of people who fled the Gulf Coast after
Bob Inglis, U.S. Representative from South Carolina Bob Inglis represented the 4th Congressional District of South Carolina from 1993-1998 and again from 2005-2010. A member of the House Science
In 1998, as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Brooksley Born unsuccessfully tried to bring over-the-counter financial derivatives under the regulatory control of the CFTC. The
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Carl Elliott, a former United States Congressman from Jasper, Alabama, was honored for his participation in the passage of the historic National Defense Education Act of 1958, which made a college
Celebrating Courage: The Profile in Courage Award and Profiles in COVID Courage Awards
We invite you to join us on the evening of Wednesday, May 26th for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation's virtual ceremony, Celebrating Courage: The Profile in Courage Award and Profiles in COVID
Judge Charles Price, a circuit court judge in Montgomery, Alabama, was honored in 1997 for his devotion to the principles of the American Constitution that compelled him to rule that a fellow circuit
Rather than "compromise with hate" and be forced to support the candidacy of Lester Maddox, an advocate of segregation, Congressman Charles Longstreet Weltner (D-Ga) placed principle above ambition
Shortly after she was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1995, Cindy Watson heard from a group of citizens who complained that waste and stench from area hog farms were causing
B. Marc Allen Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, The Boeing Company David Axelrod Political Strategist and founder of the Institute of Politics at
The 1996 Profile in Courage Award was presented to Calhoun County, Georgia School Superintendent, Corkin F. Cherubini, Ed.D. for his courage in dismantling long-standing academic tracking practices
At the outset of the pandemic, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, wanted to find a way to honor those on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic that were going above and