Tucker Carlson: “President Kennedy sent 31,000 U.S. soldiers to a campus of…”

“And so President Kennedy also sent the military to Ole Miss. How many did he send? President Trump has sent three to 500 guardsmen to Chicago, to a city of millions. President Kennedy sent 31,000 U.S. soldiers to a campus of 6,000 [at the University of Mississippi]. Yeah, that's more than five armed soldiers per student. 31,000American troops descended on the campus of Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, at the very end of September, early October 1962.” (17:52–18:01)

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