The precise details of what occurred next are shrouded in mystery, as Kennedy never talked publicly about the event, and the files at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library are strangely devoid of almost all records of the Tokyo portion of his trip. But key parts of the story can be reconstructed from fragments that survive in the files at Kennedy Library and in clues identified by researchers over the years. John F. Kennedy abruptly experienced a severe medical crisis at some point between his lunch with Professor Gunji Hosono and his departure from Tokyo on November 8, 1951, when he
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