Even before the Los Angeles roar acclaiming Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy, the Houston Post got a hint of the kind of journalistic problem it might have to face. Getting word that an itinerant preacher had hit town with a warning against electing a Catholic to anything from President on down to dogcatcher, the Post reported one of his meetings. Recalls Post Managing Editor William P. Hobby Jr.: "We soon got all sorts of hell from ministers of his denomination." A delegation of Church of Christ preachers, complaining of the deprecatory tone of...
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