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Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 18, 1964: U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, in the foreground next to the bullhorn, addresses a crowd of about 10,000 students outside Waseda University. The warm reception Kennedy received was said to be in sharp contrast to heckling he got at the school the year before.

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