Vice President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy​ met for the first ever televised presidential debate.

The 1960 presidential debates featured John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in the first national contest to be televised ...

Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon participated the first ever televised debate on Sept. 26, 1960 at ...

Since 1960, when Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts squared off against incumbent vice president Richard M. Nixon in the ...

The first televised debate pitted Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy against Republican Vice President Richard Nixon, who was recovering from a hospital visit and had a 5 o'clock shadow ...

Debates are rarely decisive in determining the outcome of presidential elections, with the impact of a debate being minimal and often overshadowed by other events.

On Sept. 26, 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy met for the first ever televised presidential debate. If the first televised debate had not happened between John F.

Televised debates between presidential ... When Kennedy began speaking from his chair, Nixon quietly and politely pointed that out. Without missing a beat, JFK smoothly rose and walked to the ...

1960: Presidential candidates Richard Nixon (left), later the 37th President of the United States, and John F Kennedy, the ...

The aesthetics were not Nixon's only shortcoming on debate night. "It wasn’t just about the visuals," Fredrik Logevall, a JFK biographer and the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International ...

Some scholars have argued that too much was made of the Nixon-JFK debate and its contrasts, given that much of the nation did not watch and there was little measurable effect on the polls.