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The 2024 presidential debate will be the first time since the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates where both candidates will face off live in a TV studio without an a...
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Sep 13, 2020 · CSPAN September 13, 2020 11:00am-12:01pm EDT. Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy and incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon squared off in the first-ever televised presidential debate in September 1960. After opening statements, the candidates took questions on their leadership experience, communism at home and abroad, medical care for seniors ...
Sep 26, 2016 · 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...
The First Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate. HOWARD K. SMITH, MODERATOR: Good evening. The television and radio stations of the United States and their affiliated stations are proud to provide facilities for a discussion of issues in the current political campaign by the two major candidates for the presidency.
1960: KENNEDY VS. NIXON. By Andrea Stone. Political campaigns changed forever on the evening of September 26, 1960, when the lights flicked on in the studios of Chicago’s CBS affiliate WBBM as 70 million Americans settled in at home to watch the first televised presidential debate.
Sep 21, 2010 · The first televised presidential debate in American history took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon on September 26, 1960.
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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.