1989 RFK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD CEREMONY

First broadcast twenty years ago, 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. 1989 RFK Laureate Fang Lizhi recieves the RFK Human Rights Award for his advocacy on behalf of freedom and democracy, including his role in the Tiananmen Square protests, which occured twenty years ago.