Gold Medals For Selfless Acts That Saved Lives

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Synopsis: New Jersey Senator Robert C. Hendrickson is one of the many recipients of a gold medal for life-saving feats presented by the President of the New York Life Saving Benevolent Association Herbert L. Satterlee...(read more)

Date: 1940
Duration: 00:00:47
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: United States

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Gold Medals For Selfless Acts That Saved Lives

Robert C. Hendrickson, New Jersey State Senator, is awarded a gold metal for a life saving feat at sea from Herbert L. Satterlee, President of the Life Saving Benevolent Association of New York, for the rescue of William H. Sutton on May 22, 1938. CU, image of State Senator Robert C. Hendrickson.

Mrs Elizabeth R. Mason was also awarded a gold metal for swimming a mile to shore to bring aid to three companions clinging to an overturn boat in Peconic Bay July 22, 1939. A total of 25 persons received awards from the Life Saving Benevolent Association on March 7, 1940.