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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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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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Jun 4, 2024 · The first historic Kennedy-Nixon debate, televised on September 26, 1960, marked a pivotal moment in American political history.
Sep 21, 2010 · With little more than a single unremarkable term in the U.S. Senate under his belt, the 43-year-old Kennedy lacked Nixon’s extensive foreign policy experience and had the disadvantage of...
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6 days ago · The conventional wisdom today about that first-of-its-kind live debate, which took place in a Chicago television studio without an audience, doesn’t square at all with the prevailing view at...
Sep 24, 2020 · Republican Richard Nixon listens as his Democratic opponent, John F. Kennedy, speaks at the first-ever televised presidential debate, at WBBM-TV studios in Chicago, Illinois, on September 26,...
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Sep 25, 2020 · The 2020 presidential election marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark televised Kennedy-Nixon debates, a series of events that have shaped national politics ever since.