Posted on 06/26/2026 11:39:20 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
–With the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., the media once again has turned to evangelist Billy Graham for a spiritual perspective in a time of societal agony.
In USA Today, Graham is quoted as saying:
“John and his wife, Carolyn, came home from their honeymoon three days early to interview me for his magazine, ‘George.’ We had a wonderful time together, and I could see a great deal of love between them.
“John Kennedy Jr. was one of the most terrific young men I’ve ever met. I thought he could be anything he decided to be. He had humility, he was kind, he was gracious, and he was knowledgeable. Most important, he had a religious faith, but I think at that time he was searching for something more definite.
“I talked to him in terms of his own personal relationship with God. He was very attentive and he seemed to want to know all about his father [President John F. Kennedy] and his faith.
He asked me, ‘In this life, where does our own free will end and God’s will begin? Are we always responsible for our own actions, or is there a point at which God’s will takes over?’
“I told him there is a mystery to all of this and that I really didn’t know, but that I did know if he had faith in God and put his trust and confidence in Him, He would provide a peace and a joy and settle his life with certainty.”
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thanks for the post. i hadn’t heard the story of Billy’s flu. no doubt something of spiritual import was missed there with JFK; but alas, we’re only human.
I met JfK in chicago when I was just 18 or 19, at a terrific hotel dining room. I was young and cute then and Jackie gave me the “I hate you” look. I was with UPS photographer stanley tretick. the Kennedys’ favorite photographer those pictures of JFK were made into a book. I actually worked for tretick at the dem National convention. He shot pictures, and I got names. Met all kinds of famous dems.
and decades later when I learned of JFK’s death, I was sure that stanley was agonizing over it. the next day, the news reported that tretick died in his nursing home right after JFK died.
It all still brings tears to my eye. and btw, my parents OKd
that job at the convention as long as I brought a friend along. Peggy came, had as much fun as I did. Parents saw me on tv, it was all wonderful.
The Demoxrap media is now hoping on the Christian wagon so as to confine the Socialist take over of the party?
Good Ruck said the Chinaman.
Sernie Banders is on a roll. Christianity is the opiate of the masses.
Wow! Amazing who we meet in life!
America’s crown prince. Imagine him coming out of the closet as a republican. It would have been over for the left. I do believe that was the case and it got him bumped off. Not by Hillary but the same people that took out his father.
The election of JFK is what killed America, he was a lefty and would have never become a republican, just his immigration law alone killed us and mad it impossible to ever recover, but the list of his radicalism is long, from affirmative action to emptying the mental hospitals, unionism for federal government workers, the Vietnam War, and so on.
henpecked to death literally. there are bold pilots and there are old pilots. there are no old, bold pilots.
IT all started at a great dude ranch in Colorado that my dad loved. Owned and operated by Katie and dickie schoenberger, industrial designers in NYC who decided to cash out and buy c Lazy U ranch. they knew everyone, invited Eisenhower for dinner but secret service said no. but press guys could come. I talked to stanley tretick, famous photog and he was impressed with my political knowledge at 17. Invited me to be his assistant at democrat national convention that would be in chicago the next summer. Parents said OK as long as I brought a friend, so Peggy came and worked for another photog. Our job: take names of people they shot. Plus, carry a bottle of booze in a cough drop bottle in our purses. amazing what bad colds those guys had.
as for being a political junkie, I was born during but not at a republican national cnvention. It’s in my blood.
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