The Sixth annual Rothko/Carter-Menil Human Rights Awards / produced by Shaun Keenan Gilson.

Program Title:
The Sixth annual Rothko/Carter-Menil Human Rights Awards / produced by Shaun Keenan Gilson.
PRA Archive #: 
TZ0057
Description: 

Series of presentations and acceptance speeches by the five recipients of the Rothko Chapel Award for Commitment to Truth and Freedom.

r.1. Opening remarks / Peter Wood ; Introductory speech / Ann Richards, Texas Governor ; 1) National Coordination Group of Guatemalan Widows / Conavigua ; 2) Committee for Human Rights in Honduras / Ramon Custodio Lopez ; 3) Prosecutor for human Rights / Ramiro de Leon Carpio ; and Mutual Support Group of Guatemala / Sebastian Duy Perebal ; 4) The Christian Committee for Human Rights in El Salvador / Maria Mirtala Lopeza Mejia ; 5) Columbia journalists / Juan Guillermo Cano Busquets and Ignacio Gomez ; Rothko Chapel Oscar Romero Award presented to Monseigneur Rudolfo Quezada Toruno ; Nelson Mandella speech (62 min.) -- r.2. Posthumous award of the sixth annual Carter-Menil Human Rights Award to the six murdered Jesuit Priests from El Salvador / Jimmy Carter ; Closing of ceremony / Domenique De Menil (28 min.).

r.1. Opening remarks / Peter Wood ; Introductory speech / Ann Richards, Texas Governor ; 1) National Coordination Group of Guatemalan Widows / Conavigua ; 2) Committee for Human Rights in Honduras / Ramon Custodio Lopez ; 3) Prosecutor for human Rights / Ramiro de Leon Carpio ; and Mutual Support Group of Guatemala / Sebastian Duy Perebal ; 4) The Christian Committee for Human Rights in El Salvador / Maria Mirtala Lopeza Mejia ; 5) Columbia journalists / Juan Guillermo Cano Busquets and Ignacio Gomez ; Rothko Chapel Oscar Romero Award presented to Monseigneur Rudolfo Quezada Toruno ; Nelson Mandella speech (62 min.) -- r.2. Posthumous award of the sixth annual Carter-Menil Human Rights Award to the six murdered Jesuit Priests from El Salvador / Jimmy Carter ; Closing of ceremony / Domenique De Menil (28 min.).

Station: 
Date Recorded on: 
Houston, Texas, 12 Dec. 1991.
Date Broadcast on: 
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Item duration: 
2 reels (90 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., mono.
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1991.
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