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2 days ago · On the late Friday afternoon of July 15, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts appeared before a crowd of eighty thousand people in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to deliver his formal acceptance of the Democratic party’s nomination for President of the United States.
5 days ago · CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) motion picture excerpt of Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy's full acceptance speech at the 1960 Democratic National Convention at the Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California.
4 days ago · i want to express my thank the governor stephenson, for his generous and heartwarming introduction. it was my great honor to place his name in nomination at the 1956 democratic convention, and i am delighted to have his support and his counsel and his advice in the coming months ahead. let me say first that i accept the nomination of the democratic party. i accepted without reservation and ...
10 hours 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 ...
2 days ago · Albert R. Hunt June 24, 2024. The Biden-Trump encounter this week is unlikely to be recalled in years ahead as pivotal and consequential an encounter as the first Kennedy-Nixon debate — unless ...
4 days ago · Democratic National Convention (DNC), quadrennial meeting of the U.S. Democratic Party, at which delegates select the party’s presidential and vice presidential nominees. The Democratic Party held its first national convention in May 1832 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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3 days ago · Background 1960 and 1964 presidential elections. In 1960, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic nomination over Lyndon B. Johnson.After he secured the nomination at the party convention, Kennedy offered Johnson the vice presidential nomination; the offer was a surprise, and some Kennedy supporters claimed that the nominee expected Johnson to decline.
