I talked with Santa yesterday and he is fine

John F. Kennedy responds to a worried young girl

Dec 13, 2022

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In 1961, immediately after overhearing her parents discuss the possibility of Soviet nuclear tests at the North Pole, 8-year-old Michelle Rochon grabbed a pencil and wrote a letter to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in which she asked him to prevent the tests for one particular reason. To her surprise, Kennedy soon replied.

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