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The second presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy took place on Friday, October 7, 1960, at the WRC-TV studios in Washington, D.C.. The debate was moderated by Frank McGee of NBC with Paul Niven, Edward P. Morgan, Alvin Spivak and Harold R. Levy as panelists. Questions were related to internal ...
Senator John F. Kennedy (left) and vice president Richard Nixon (right), prior to their first presidential debate. Second of the four Kennedy and Nixon debates, which took place at WRC-TV in Washington, D. C., on October 7, 1960 [51] Full broadcast of the September 26 debate
Nixon had the advantage of Eisenhower being a popular president. He promised to continue Eisenhower's work and "improve upon them in such areas as welfare programs, foreign aid, and defense." [3] His main opponents in the general election were Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy and Texas Governor Lyndon B. Johnson, Democrats.
On September 26th in 1960, Democratic Senator, John F. Kennedy, and Vice President, Richard M. Nixon, participated in the first major televised debate between presidential candidates. The ...
The CNN anchor has written a book on the race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, narrowly won by Kennedy, that featured the first televised presidential debates. “The 1960 presidential ...
The debate showed the power of television when Kennedy won the election the moment he stepped onstage Today in History: The Nixon-Kennedy Debates Skip to main content
Political observers at the time felt that Kennedy won the first debate, [68] Nixon won the second [69] and third debates, [70] while the fourth debate, [71] which was seen as the strongest performance by both men, was a draw. Kennedy had met the day before the first debate with the producer to discuss the design of the set and the placement of ...
Nixon This was the first-ever televised debate and nearly 70 million Americans watched. Television viewers thought Kennedy won, while radio listeners thought Nixon won the debate.