Vice President Richard Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy faced off in the first televised presidential debate in U.S. history on this day in history, Sept. 26, 1960.

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The first 1960 presidential debate between Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon. Paywall-free, every single day. MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce.

Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) and Vice President Richard Nixon met in Chicago for the first of four presidential debates prior to the 1960 presidential election. This was the first televised ...

1960 Presidential Debates. S U M M A R Y. For the first time, the nominees of the two major parties met to debate during a general election. Congress suspended the equal time provision of the ...

On Oct. 13, 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen. John Kennedy debated for a third time, this time a continent apart. Nixon was in a Los Angeles studio, Kennedy was in an identical studio in ...

To mark the start of the 2016 general election debates, PBS NewsHour and Microsoft have partnered to launch WatchTheDebates.org, an interactive civic education and voter engagement site that ...

A tradition that dates back to 1960. The first televised presidential debates, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, occurred in television studios with no live audience present.

Presidential debates are a modern television age creation. The nominees of the two major parties did not debate until 1960, when Republican Vice President Richard Nixon faced John Kennedy, the ...

Viral claims said the possibility of a 'virtual' presidential debate during the COVID-19 pandemic would be unprecedented. They're wrong.

CPD's website states that there were no presidential debates between 1960 and 1976. The presidents at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, refused requests to debate.

The last time was in 1960, when Richard M. Nixon, ... Every presidential debate since then has included an in-person audience, even during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, ...