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On the recordDecember 8, 1961
I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the period of December 10 to December 17, 1961, as Human Rights Week
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Proclamation 3442—Human Rights Week, 1961

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