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4 days ago · 26 September 1960. Description. CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) motion picture of the first presidential debate between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon from CBS studios, Chicago, Illinois.
2 days ago · In a closely contested election, Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. This was the first election in which 50 states participated, marking the first participation of Alaska and Hawaii, and the last in which the District of Columbia did not.
3 days ago · The Kennedy-Nixon Debates The 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates are often cited as a transformative moment in U.S. political history. The debates, held on September 26, October 7, October 13, and October 21, were watched by an estimated 70 million people.
18 hours ago · Jul 6, 2024. Rolland Kidder. One advantage of being old is that you have a long memory. I still remember the first televised Presidential debate in 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. There were some policy issues debated like the United States’ reaction to Chinese bombardment of two small islands, Quemoy and Matsu, off the coast ...
4 days ago · The Kennedy-Nixon debate is instructive at least in this sense: the win-lose polling results were split between radio listeners and TV viewers, with the former awarding Nixon the win while TV viewers favored to the charismatic Kennedy over a sweaty Dick Nixon.
3 days ago · Democrats liked that in 1960 (when John Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off, seen in the public domain photo above as posted on wikimedia commons), but grumbled about it decades later. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama clearly dominated Arizona Sen. John McCain in three debates in 2008.
4 days ago · In 1960, Democrat John Kennedy narrowly defeated Republican Richard Nixon in an electoral win that was widely attributed to their respective TV debate performances. Nixon was generally perceived as having won the first debate by radio listeners, but he’d been ill and had a lousy makeup job and the contrast with the handsome, tanned and rested ...
