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Barack Obama: I told them, please, tell me what happened. Just tell me what happened.

On the recordOctober 9, 2012
I told them, please, tell me what happened. Just tell me what happened.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Pat Smith expresses her plea to President Obama for information about her son's death.

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