In the 1960 U.S. Presidential campaign, John Kennedy was running a close race with Richard Nixon. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was in a Georgia state prison on a traffic violation. Kennedy was advised to make a sympathy call to King's wife, Coretta Scott King. Still undecided, with others against the idea, it...

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