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On the recordSeptember 8, 1963
I think that what they are wondering is what effect this will have, whether the North, which has supported civil rights in the past, will continue to support it.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Transcript of Broadcast on NBC's 'Huntley-Brinkley Report.'

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