{"id":6881,"date":"2014-08-23T11:17:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T15:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2014-08-24T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T01:43:00","slug":"vincent-j-celeste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/vincent-j-celeste\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent J. Celeste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent J. Celeste was a little-known East Boston attorney who was the Republican candidate running against JFK in both the 1950 Congressional election and the 1958 Senate campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1958 campaign he was widely considered to be the sacrificial lamb and did not even win the endorsement of the conservative <em>Boston Herald<\/em>, who backed Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>[97, p.158]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent J. Celeste was a little-known East Boston attorney who was the Republican candidate running against JFK in both the 1950 Congressional election and the 1958 Senate campaign. 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