From left to right, Senator John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Don Hewitt of CBS News and Vice President Richard M. Nixon (1913 -1994) at the first televised presidential debate on Sept. 26, 1960 ...

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.

The first of the four “Great Debates” between Republican candidate for president Richard Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy, September 26, 1960, was historic for many reasons.

Right after Kennedy`s assassination in November, 1963, the CBS-TV news department prepared a special program on his career that included an interview with citizen Richard Nixon.

U.S. News & World Report published this recap of the Sept. 26, 1960, televised debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in the Oct. 10, 1960, edition of the magazine.

The John F. Kennedy-Richard Nixon debates in 1960 were far more civil than this year’s brutal showdowns between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The Vice President was Richard M. Nixon and the U.S. Senator was John F. Kennedy. Their first televised debate shifted how presidential campaigns were conducted, as the power of television took ...

He reminded Nixon that prior to the first debate in 1960, Kennedy had been campaigning in California and therefore came to Chicago well tanned, and that is why he hadn't needed any fancy makeup.

Did you know that the first presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon won the election for Kennedy? Did you know that those who saw the debate on television thought Kennedy won ...

Richard Nixon in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy in New York during their third presidential debate on Oct. 13, 1960. (MPI / Getty Images) By Stephen Battaglio Staff Writer ...

Where Kennedy was fluent and lucid, Nixon’s prepared remarks used odd, tangled syntax that tripped him up as he spoke. “There is no question but that this nation cannot stand still,” he said.

Yes, on Oct. 13, 1960, Kennedy, speaking from an ABC studio in New York, and Nixon, speaking from an ABC studio in California, answered questions from a panel of journalists stationed in a ...