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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
Adela Rogers St. Johns
ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
Awarded by
President Richard M. Nixon
April 22, 1970
Reporter, feature writer, author, she has enhanced every field she has entered. Beginning her career when women reporters were few, she has brought entertainment and information to millions with the energy, vigor and grace characteristic of both her style and her personality. Demonstrating an exceptional ability to reveal the human story behind the news, she has brought to her writing an excitement and warmth that for many years have earned her the high esteem of her profession and of her public.
Adela Rogers St. Johns, daughter of a famous defense attorney, became famous herself as a newspaper reporter and screenwriter.
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