It seems almost impossible to imagine now that John F. Kennedy’s Catholicism was a huge issue in the 1960 presidential campaign
It seems almost impossible to imagine now that John F. Kennedy’s Catholicism was a huge issue in the 1960 presidential campaign. His victory in the Democratic primary in West Virginia—a state with a small Catholic population—was a huge boost to his candidacy because it proved that anti-Catholic prejudice might be waning. In the fall campaign against…
