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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: There is another side of the picture--the school drop-outs, the untrained and the unemployed and the underprivileged…

On the recordFebruary 13, 1963
There is another side of the picture--the school drop-outs, the untrained and the unemployed and the underprivileged, the nearly one million young Americans arrested for infractions of the law, the growing number sent to correctional institutions.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Special Message to the Congress on the Nation's Youth.

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