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Announcement of Additional Federal Aid for Programs Relating to the Murdered and Missing Youth in Atlanta, Georgia

June 15, 1981

The President today is announcing the approval of $1.160 million for the Safe Summer Parks and Recreation Program for Atlanta, Fulton and DeKalb Counties, Ga. This brings to a total of $4.1 million that the Federal Government has provided Atlanta in the situation regarding the number of young people that are missing or dead.

[The President said,] "The people of Atlanta and the surrounding communities have endured grief and suffering in a manner that touches the hearts and minds and souls of millions of our countrymen. The American people are united in a collective effort to bring an end to this devastation of human life, to eliminate family suffering, and to restore a new spirit to a beleaguered community."

Note: Deputy Press Secretary Larry M. Speakes read the announcement at the daily press briefing in the Briefing Room at the White House.

Ronald Reagan, Announcement of Additional Federal Aid for Programs Relating to the Murdered and Missing Youth in Atlanta, Georgia Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246986

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