When did the first Roman Catholic president take office in the USA?

Rissa Firecat , I recall this vividly. he is beloved not necessarily for what he did achieve but what he wanted to achieve. from the time he was killed on a Friday afternoon eastern time where I was through Monday morning I believe on television and at the time they were only three major networks. It was no commercial programming. Also was no entertainment programming. It was only an exclusively about the life of JFK. I wasn't quite 10 years old. To see full-blown grown men on TV weeping was riveting and very very disturbing.

Does anyone remember when he was murdered? I was in junior high school and I couldn’t stop crying!

Kennedy's religion was used in an attempt to turn voters away from him. The other party said if JFK was elected, then the Vatican would control the USA.

OptimisticFrog17914, Who doesn't remember where they were and what they were doing when John F. Kennedy's assassination was announced!?! I was in basic training at the Bethesda, Maryland Naval Base being measured for my dress blues uniform. Classes were dismissed. That evening there was a candlelight service in the chapel. (A few of us were watching the news when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald.) It was truly a sad time for the Kennedy family and our country.

Bill D Maryland, country is built on protestant beliefs, it was a big deal that a Catholic was elected.

I vaguely remember John Kennedy as a child I remember his assassination probably more than I do actually him I couldn't figure out why the boots on a white horse in the stirrups for upside down hanging and was explained to me that it was because he was had been in military service and that was a tradition so I can vaguely remember it it wasn't a very pleasant time

Rissa Firecat , November 22, 1963...I was a child in elementary school...the horrid & tragic images still remain...decades later. His death was the catalyst that ignited a fire within me to delve into American history & world events from 63 until this very day. Although we were the best country to live in...we are quickly slipping down the "worlds commode"... yet despite all of our sins & faults...there's only one country I would live in aside from the 🇺🇸 USA! Most say "May God Bless America", but I ask that the Lord God have mercy on America!

Player #4476480, This.was.one of the reasons JEdgar Hoover the FBI head disliked JFK. Also I think Hoover had something to do with the assassination.

Grew up north of Boston. News of the assassination came on TV, and even the nuns were crying and we went home.

MuscularDemigod69239, Does your closed mind give you headaches?

Player #4476480, It's not as if JFK was a GOOD Catholic...

I was about 7 and I was in front of the TV. My grandmother was crying so much it scared me, and I began to cry too.

Rissa Firecat , 11/22/1963

ChanGirl01967, I was born a few weeks later so it’s a little vague to me.

Rissa Firecat , November 22, 1963. A very dark day in US history

Missy K, America was not built on Protestant beliefs, it was built on the idea that anyone could come here without persecution for their religious beliefs, no matter the base of their faith. Both the Catholic and Protestant followers at the time were heavily into persecution of other faiths, especially each other's. The point of leaving Europe was freedom, especially religious freedom. Our 1st Amendment is evidence. America was never meant to be governed by a single religion or faith.

Player #4476480, I still remember seeing quarters with a red lipstick smear across the top of Washington's head; done by people to imply The Pope would secretly run the country if JFK was elected

Missy K, The country is built upon neither protestant nor any other religious beliefs. That's why the Constitution mandates the separation of church and state...no matter how bad one particular party is at upholding it, and the other at holding them accountable for it.

They need to update this answer. President Elect Joe Biden is a Roman Catholic.

Player #12203943, I was also 23 and at home with my 4 babies aged almost 4 to one month old. I just sat with them and cried

ChanGirl01967, I really don't remember what I was doing, when he was killed. But, I was only 3 at the time. I did take a tour of the Book Depository, & looked out the very window he was shot from. There's also a marker on the street, of the spot he was, at the time. You can also stand on the spot, where Zapruder stood, when he made the Famous film.

His brother Bobby was way better.Lyndon Johnson is the one who passed the Voting Rights Act in 1964 when he became President.All the history when I was a kid looked up to this President Kennedy as some kind of hero.But when the truth came out about him.Basically started the Vietnam War by sending advisors over thier.Then after the rest is history.He was an adulter,womanizer.Got Patrice Lumumba assinsnated in the Republic of the Congo.Patrice Lumumba was the first to be voted in that region.So what did the U.S. do put in thier own puppet leader to help thier cause over there.After that the Congo has had many problems to this day.

Missy K, yes, it certainly was. My mother was appalled. She was sure he would support the Pope before the Constitution.

Player SQinfoNUTS, so was I!!!

jude, no, of course not! But it does matter that there has NEVER been a woman president.

Rissa Firecat , november 22, 1963.

Rissa Firecat , absolutely I remembe. i was Catholic and on the bus going to religious indtructions. the bus driver told us

FunkyMonkey, Better yet, ask Melania.