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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “When the Texans died for Texan independence, there were not only native born Texans in the Alamo; there were not only…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 1960
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.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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

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