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NPR News Specials Remembering Ted Kennedy

Posted by Kristine A. on 08/26 at 12:43 PM

WPSU-FM will bring you two NPR News specials today, at 2:00pm and 7:00pm, remembering the life and work of Senator Ted Kennedy. 

This afternoon at 2:00….

NPR congressional correspondent Andrea Seabrook will host an NPR News special and will interview guests about Kennedy’s life of service and influential career in the Senate, and invite questions from the audience.  Guests include Peter Canellos author of “Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy” and Thomas Oliphant who covered Senator Kennedy for forty years for the Boston Globe. Listen online at http://wpsu.org/live/.

This evening at 7:00….

NPR will explore Kennedy’s life – his role as a legislative lion in the Senate; his focus on civil rights and on fighting for the disenfranchised; and his personal life and struggles.
Host Linda Wertheimer will be joined by a roundtable offering political analysis on the legacy Kennedy leaves behind, with Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg, Senior News Analyst Juan Williams, Health Policy Correspondent Julie Rovner and Political Editor Ken Rudin. Listen online at http://wpsu.org/live/.