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During his presidency, John F. Kennedy recorded a number of meetings and telephone conversations, including the following calls between the President, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett during the crisis in Mississippi. These tapes allow you to "eavesdrop" on history in the making.


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links to telephone conversations go to telephone conversation 4A go to telephone conversation 4C go to telephone conversation 4F4 go to telephone conversation 4F5 go to telephone conversation 4F7 go to telephone conversation 4G3


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