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Radio 5 Live,1 min

JFK assassination remembered: Sir Menzies Campbell

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The MP for North East Fife and former leader of the Liberal Democrats was taking part in a student debate at the University of Glasgow, when he heard that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. He tells of his “absolute astonishment” at an American republican student’s positive reaction to the news.

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