It was forty-eight years ago in West Virginia that John Kennedy won the state primary and proved that a Catholic could carry an overwhelmingly Protestant state. That victory assured him of a huge lead over Lyndon Johnson going into the Democratic Convention, but no one suggested that Johnson withdraw from the race.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one still alive who covered the 1960 Conventions.
There was much ugliness at the Democratic Convention. Delegates with Masonic pins in their...
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