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Florynce Kennedy Says Miss America Pageant Is 'Superfluous' And 'Unnecessary'

Activist Florynce Kennedy sets the record straight on the 1968 protests against the Miss America pageant — no bras were burned — and expresses her ongoing critique of the competition.

This story originally aired on All Things Considered on September 17, 1983.

The digital preservation of this audio has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lee Thornton