John Kennedy actually said...

When the Texans died for Texan independence, there were not only native born Texans in the Alamo; there were not only citizens of Tennessee and North Carolina, but there was a citizen from Massachusetts, William Lynn, who came here to shed his blood with the other people in the Alamo.

Context

Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, the Alamo, San Antonio, TX

09/11/1960

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