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JFK Acceptance Speech at the 1960 Democratic National Convention

JFK Library and Museum - John F. Kennedy Speeches by John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

Jul 15, 201000:24:10News & Politics

Senator John F. Kennedy appeared before a crowd of eighty thousand people in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to deliver his formal acceptance of the Democratic party’s nomination for President of the United States.

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