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JFK was in Arkansas on October 3, 1963 to dedicate the Greers Ferry Dam in north-central Cleburn County. After giving remarks, shaking hands with the crowd and having a lunch of chicken barbequed on site by the Young Men’s Business Club from Batesville, Arkansas he then helicoptered to Little Rock to attend the Arkansas State Fair.<\/p>\n

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After he gave his speech on his “vision for an economically prosperous South” at the Fair to a crowd of 40,000 including many school children let out of class on a holiday, he worked the rope line for a few minutes before turning and heading to one of the two helicopters which took him back to Air Force One parked at the Little Rock Air Force Base<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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