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The Baltimore Sun’s Front Page on November 5, 1963

This front page of The Baltimore Sun appeared a few weeks before President Kennedy’s assassination.

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This was the front page of The Baltimore Sun exactly fifty years ago today. This was a few weeks prior to Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas and we were in the middle of the Cold War.

Baltimore Sun front page - November 5th, 1963
Baltimore Sun front page – November 5th, 1963

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