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Sep 21, 2010 · And yet, while most radio listeners called the first debate a draw or pronounced Nixon the victor, the senator from Massachusetts won over the 70 million television viewers by a broad...
- Missy Sullivan
Sep 23, 2010 · As the story goes, those who listened to the debate on the radio thought Nixon had won. But those listeners were in the minority. By 1960, 88% of American households had televisions — up...
Sep 24, 2020 · Republican Richard Nixon listens as his Democratic opponent, John F. Kennedy, speaks at the first-ever televised presidential debate, at WBBM-TV studios in Chicago, Illinois, on...
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Sep 26, 2017 · Lodge saw the debate on TV, while Johnson listened to the debate on the radio. The event’s aura of being a game changer was so strong that in the following three campaigns, the sitting president refused to debate any challenger.
The Impact of Television. One of the most discussed issues with the 1960 debates was the notion that people who listened to the radio were more likely to vote for Nixon while people who watched the debates on television were more likely to vote for Kennedy.
Sep 25, 2020 · Over the past 60 years the myth has persisted that while Kennedy blew Nixon out of the water on TV that night, radio audiences came away feeling Nixon had won the debate.
Sep 24, 2010 · The Kennedy-Nixon debate. Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first-ever televised general-election presidential debate....
