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Jack Kemp Received Medical Exemption from Active Duty in 1961, Continued Playing Pro Football

HeadlineAug 20, 1996

Jack Kemp, the number two man on the Republican ticket, that has made much of Robert Dole’s military service, was excused from active duty in the early 1960s for a shoulder problem, but continued playing pro football. Kemp, in the Army Reserve, received a medical exemption after Army doctors who examined him in October ’61 determined that a shoulder injury he suffered playing football a month earlier made him unfit for active duty.

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