[Graybeard58]

N 1960, the last time a Roman Catholic ran for president on the Democratic ticket, evangelical Protestant leaders warned their flocks that electing John F. Kennedy would be like handing the Oval Office to the Antichrist.

I was around in 1960 and I didn't hear one single evangelic protestant leader say that. What I did see and hear was the liberal media at the time saying that's what was happening in protestant churches.

I'm NOT denying that that feeling didn't exist among some protestants. Just that as usual the NYTimes has no source for their so called statements of fact. They blatently make a statement that they can't back up and then build a whole story on the original fabrication.

[Russ]

I agree with everything you said. Nowhere in 1960 did I hear or read the kind of things the NYT reports. It's typical liberal BS. They make things up as they go...

[VOA]

I was around in 1960 and I didn't hear one single evangelic protestant leader say that.
What I did see and hear was the liberal media at the time saying that's what
was happening in protestant churches.

I was too yonng to pick up those nuances.
But I do know that I never heard anything but fairly good comments about both
JFK and Nixon in my extended family and my conservative (mainstream Church of Christ).

And NOTHING but somber mourning when JFK was assassinated.