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refused. I had one more place to appeal the decision: the
President of the United States. I did so, and John F. Kennedy agreed with me. I did study at Oxford and went on to win national and international competitions with my choirs from the three universities at which I taught during my career. Thank you, JFK!"
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Interestingly, Fankhauser stated in 2018: "When I graduated from college during the
Vietnam war and was granted a Fulbright scholarship to study music at Oxford University, my ignorant, small town draft board refused to let me go. I asked for a reconsideration by the state draft board, which also
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