Former U.S. President Bill Clinton provided the opening address of the two-day Kerner Plus-40 Symposium at Penn’s Great Hall of the Irvine Auditorium today, The Temple News is the first to report.

The event was held to recognize the 40th anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report’s release on Feb. 29, 1968.

Clinton spoke for about an hour on a wide variety of issues, but did not mention his wife’s presidential campaign.

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