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The opening statements in the 1960 presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon are classic examples of political rhetoric and strategy. Joh...
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Sep 26, 2010 · Today is the 50th anniversary of the very first televised presidential debate. On Monday, September 26th, 1960 the three television networks broadcast an hour-long debate between Vice President Richard Nixon (Republican) and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy (Democrat), held at WBBM-TV in Chicago.
The Kennedy vs. Nixon debate was the last debate where Americans got to know their politicians... Thom explains why! 🔴 Subscribe for more clips like thi...
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Sep 22, 2008 · How Richard Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election: a fateful decision to face Democratic candidate John Kennedy in televised debates and a bungled strategy for wooing black voters.
Aug 15, 2024 · The subject of the debate is domestic policy, and issues raised include education, health care, farming, the economy, labor, and the Cold War. See "Freedom of Communications, Senate Report 994, Part 3, Kennedy - Nixon on Radio and Television, 73-92." Sponsored and presented by: "ABC, CBS, NBC Television Networks and Their Affiliated Stations."
Clip from the first of four televised debates between Kennedy and Nixon, and the first presidential debate to be televised ever. This debate was seen as a t...
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Sep 23, 2016 · In 2003, James N. Druckman tested our conventional wisdom about the power of looks in the Nixon-Kennedy debates in a paper for The Journal of Politics. He recruited 171 students with no prior knowledge of the debates and provided them with some background on the election and still photos of the candidates.
