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TNC:172 On September 26, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon stood before an audience of 70 million Americans—two-thirds of the ...
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- JFK Library
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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- Max Power
The 1960 presidential cycle featured former Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, a Republican. The fourth debate, in the first...
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5 days ago · John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debate in September 1960, as seen on a black-and-white TV. Associated Press The debate as a draw. What the public is often told nowadays about that first-of-its ...
6 days ago · Max Frankel, then the executive editor of The New York Times, wrote several months after Nixon’s death in 1994 that “Nixon lost a TV debate, and the Presidency, to John F. Kennedy in 1960 ...
Sep 25, 2020 · Today, anyone watching that first debate on YouTube can see how each man took those last-minute directions to heart. JFK immediately went on the attack, launching into scathing criticism of the...
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Sep 21, 2010 · The first televised presidential debate in American history took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon on September 26, 1960. The Kennedy-Nixon debates not only had a major...