| Ellis Island Honors Linda McCartney Sunday, May 10, 1998; 1:45 p.m. EDT NEW YORK (AP) -- Linda McCartney has been posthumously awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. McCartney, the wife of Paul McCartney and a longtime crusader for vegetarianism, died of cancer last month at age 56. She was one of 120 people honored at a ceremony Saturday on Ellis Island, where immigrants used to be processed before entering New York City. No one from the family was at the ceremony, so the medal will be delivered to McCartney in England. Others cited at the 12th annual awards ceremony included Dith Pran, whose story was told in ``The Killing Fields,'' actors Stephen Seagal and John Amos, and the gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic women's hockey team. The awards given by by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations honor a wide variety of efforts to ``enrich or invigorate society,'' said chairman William Denis Fugazy. Past recipients include President Clinton, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Coretta Scott King, and Muhammad Ali and Elie Wiesel. Copyright 1998 The Associated Press Home | Cambodian News | Back | |