50 years of President Kennedy's Medal of Freedom

... Hasse's favorite objects. Ellington, who was born in Washington, D.C., in 1899, spent most of his long career in New York, but he returned to the city of his birth to receive his medal on his 70th birthday, 44 years ago. Hasse says, "The 10-block ...

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