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Radio 5 Live,1 min

JFK Assassination remembered: Ken Clarke

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Cabinet minister Ken Clarke recalls being a young barrister in Birmingham when he heard the news. He returned home to find his landlady in a state of "considerable terror" who wished to be assured that nothing would happen between the Americans and the Russians.

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