Movies, TV shows, books, individuals honored with Christopher Awards

Published: 2005-03-18

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Four movies, six television programs, 11 books and three individuals were honored at the 56th annual Christopher Awards ceremony, held March 10 in New York. Sargent Shriver was honored with the Christopher Leadership Award for a career "of exemplary public service." The first director of the Peace Corps, he was also at the helm of many other government and private social service initiatives in the 1960s and '70s, including Head Start, Job Corps, the federal Office of Economic Opportunity, the National Clearinghouse for Legal Services, Upward Bound and Volunteers in Service to America, known as VISTA. Shriver, U.S. ambassador to France in 1968-70 and the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1972, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.

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