26, 1960, as Vice President Richard Nixon ... The nation's first-ever televised presidential debate was held in Chicago and broadcast on CBS. The candidates squared off on television three ...

On Sept. 26, 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts met for the first ever televised presidential debate in Studio 1 at the old CBS Chicago broadcast ...

26, 1960: Image prevailed ... s influence likewise transformed conventional wisdom about the first-ever presidential debate.

Presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon shake hands after their televised debate of October 7, 1960. The two opponents continued their debate after the cameras had stopped ...

The decisions by President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday to agree to two presidential debates will ensure the continuation of a tradition that dates back to 1960.

The 1960 presidential debates series was held between two men who would both eventually be elected president: John F. Kennedy (JFK), that election's ultimate winner and at the time a Massachusetts ...

This will be the first general election presidential debate without an in-person audience in more than six decades. The last time was in 1960, when Richard M. Nixon, the Republican vice president ...

History was made last night. The kind of history that may unseat the Sept. 26, 1960, Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate as the default anecdote about how a TV moment transformed American politics.