Dialogue

Paying a Debt of Honor

Season 1997 Episode 2 | 24m 32s  | Video has closed captioning.

Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Vernon Baker passed away Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Baker was the only living African American WW2 veteran to receive the nation's highest honor for valor. Baker was given his award 52 years after he wiped out four German machine gun nests. In his honor, Dialogue would like to present an encore presentation Joan Cartan-Hansen's interview with Baker from 1997

Aired: 02/27/97

Rating: TV-G

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