Senator Kennedy Receives A Defender Of Democracy Award

Portrait of attendees at a People for the American Way Foundation luncheon, Washington DC, May 18, 1998. Pictured are, from left, American actor Alec Baldwin, foundation president Carole Shields, US Senator Ted Kennedy (1932 - 2009), and TV producer Norman Lear (1922 - 2023). The foundation was co-founded by Lear and, at the event, Kennedy was presented with the organization's Defenders of Democracy award. (Photo by Ron Sachs/CNP/Getty Images)