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On 50th anniversary, recollections of JFK assassination

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Fifty years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. If you were alive on November 22, 1963, you remember where you were when you heard the news. Current State’s Scott Pohl collected the stories of people at the Prime Time Seniors Center at the Hannah Community Center in East Lansing.

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