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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 [107]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1409],"tags":[1906,1907,7,272,1910,1911],"yoast_head":"\n