Cardinal Richard Cushing helps elect Pope Paul VI in Rome.

Cushing actually votes twice in the papal election. After Giovanni Battista Montini is elected on the first ballot, a motion is made to make the choice unanimous. Unable to explain the procedure to a confused Uruguayan cardinal sitting next to him, Cushing marks and submits both his own and that of the other cardinal. He later explains that he did so because, “He didn’t speak English and I didn’t speak Uruguayan . . . [and] I’m not from South Boston for nothing.”