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(55,745 posts)From C-SPAN:
The Presidency: President Kennedy's Vietnam Tapes
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
Sunday, November 3, 2013
To mark the 50th anniversary this November 22 of President Kennedy's assassination, we look back at his policies. This is a discussion about Oval Office recordings and what they reveal of JFK's thinking about America's involvement in Vietnam. Over the past decade, 260 hours of President Kennedy's recorded conversations have been released -- 25 of these tapes are exchanges related to his Vietnam strategy. We hear about new findings concerning this strategy from Marc Selverstone -- chairman of the Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia.
http://www.c-span.org/Events/The-Presidency-President-Kennedy39s-Vietnam-Tapes/10737442215/
The Miller Center has the tapes in question, and a transcript:
http://millercenter.org/presidentialclassroom/exhibits/jfks-memoir-dictation-on-the-assassination-of-diem
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