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On October 31, 1962, President John F. Kennedy filmed a public service announcement urging citizens of a very different America to vote. He encouraged eligible voters to cast a ballot on election day for the midterm race.
Half a century later, the words of the late president still resonate and coincidentally, the date of this year's presidential election is the same as then -- Tuesday, Nov. 6.
"Show the world how strongly we believe in freedom, how strongly we believe in democracy," Kennedy says.
The video was filmed in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing of the White House, only three days after the unofficial end of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Check out the footage in the video above and see more at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza's YouTube page.
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