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Executive Order 11016

Authorizing award of the Purple Heart

Signed by John Fitzgerald Kennedy on Apr 25, 1962.

Later amended
Signed recordApr 25, 1962

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Publication record27 FR 4139

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Later dispositionLater amended

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Amended by EO 11382, November 28, 1967; EO 12464, February 23, 1984; EO 13286, February 28, 2003
Supersedes EO 10409, November 12, 1952

National Archives disposition tables cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.