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The news spread among black Americans and those who could vote decided to vote for Kennedy. It might well have won Kennedy the vote, as he only won by 0.2% of the population. As the Kennedy brothers organised King's release quietly, it avoided looking like a publicity stunt and meant that the racist Southern voters were not aware of it.

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