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When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this election to explain the operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White's flawed classic, 'The Making of the President'.
Featuring highlights of the first televised Presidential Debates in History On September 26, 1960, the first-ever televised Presidential debate occurred between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon. These debates had a huge impact on politics because it provided the American people with the opportunity to watch their candidate go head-to-head on important issues, such as international affairs and education. 70 million viewers tuned in to watch the first debate centered on domestic issues broadcast from the studios of WBBM-TV in Chicago. Focus on the second debate was disagreement over U.S. involvement in two small islands off the coast of China. In the final face-to-face debate in New York, the candidates discussed Amercan relations with Cuba. Studies of the audience indicated that those who heard the first debate on the radio pronounced Nixon the winner. But the 70 million who watched television perceived Kennedy as the winner by a large margin.