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Video Clip: John F. Kennedy on Religion and the Presidency

Description

Senator John F. Kennedy addressed a special meeting of the Greater Houston Ministerial Association at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. He spoke about the separation of church and state, the issue of having a Catholic as president, and the role that his religion had played up to that point in the 1960 presidential election.

4 minutes

Keywords

  • Baptist
  • Catholicism
  • Ecclesiastic
  • Jewish
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Pastor
  • Pope
  • Protestant
  • Senator
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Unitarian