Letters, Sep. 5, 1960

The Partisans

Sir:

Although Jack Kennedy (my namesake) and I are Catholics, he cannot have my vote I believe Mr. Kennedy placed his political ambitions above principle in accepting the Democrats' platform, concocted, in most part, by radicals bent on bankrupting the Government, enslaving our citizens and destroying our American way of life.

J. F. KENNEDY Royal Oak, Mich.

Sir:

Everyone is up in arms over John Kennedy's being a Roman Catholic.

Frankly, I thought the Republican Convention had the overtones and moral facade of a Southern Baptist revival meeting. The Republican Party's passing themselves...

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