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Sep 21, 2010 · TNC:172 Kennedy-Nixon First Presidential Debate, 1960. JFK Library. 113K subscribers. 5.2M views 13 years ago. ...more. TNC:172 On September 26, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice...
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Aug 15, 2008 · Clip from the 1st 1960 presidential debate between Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) and Vice President Richard Nixon (R-CA). Held on September 26, 1960, it was the first presidential debate...
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The 1960 presidential cycle featured former Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, a Republican. The first debate, and the first one...
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- Background to The Kennedy-Nixon Debates
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- Legacy of The Kennedy-Nixon Debates
The U.S. presidential election of 1960 came at a decisive time in American history. The country was engaged in a heated Cold War with the Soviet Union, which had just taken the lead in the space race by launching the Sputnik satellite. The rise of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary regime in Cuba had heightened fears about the spread of communism in the ...
On the evening of September 26, when the two candidates arrived at the CBS broadcast facility in downtown Chicago for the first televised presidential debate in American history, Nixon’s streak of bad luck continued. Stepping out of the car, he banged his bad knee and exacerbated his earlier injury. The vice president had recently suffered a bout o...
What accounted for this discrepancy? For one thing, television was a relatively recent addition to America’s living rooms, and politicians were still seeking the right formula for interacting with the public in this new, more intimate way. Kennedy nailed it during their debates, staring directly into the camera as he answered each question. Nixon, ...
A month and a half later, Americans turned out to vote in record numbers. As predicted, it was a close election, with Kennedy winningthe popular vote 49.7 percent to 49.5 percent. Polls revealed that more than half of all voters had been influenced by the Great Debates, while 6 percent claimed that the debates alone had decided their choice. Whethe...
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Sep 25, 2015 · Relive the Highlights of the Kennedy vs. Nixon Debate Decades Later. On Sept. 26, 1960, two presidential candidates went head to head in the first-ever televised presidential debate. While...
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Oct 15, 1996 · Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) and Vice President Richard Nixon met in New York City for the last of four presidential debates prior to the 1960 presidential election. The debate focused on...
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4 days ago · 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. During the debate, Senator Kennedy states, "I don't believe in big government, but I believe in effective governmental action."
