This unprecedented year has inspired great innovation. But the idea of hosting a virtual debate isn't one of them. Bringing people together remotely and televising it is not anything new, including in ...

On Oct. 21, 1960, American viewers were riveted to their television sets for the broadcast of the fourth and final debate between Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Democratic Senator John ...

Iconic photos featuring three presidents whose items are often treated as collectibles are quietly being auctioned in a “private treaty offer” timed for the election. One photo shows the Sept. 26, ...

07 Oct 1960, Washington, DC, USA --- Presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon shake hands after their televised debate of October 7, 1960. The two ...

The 1960 presidential election offered the country's first televised debate. It's remembered less for what was said than for what viewers saw. Democrat John F. Kennedy, the handsome young ...

On the night of September 26, 1960, America sat before its televisions in anticipation of something entirely new. It was the first televised presidential debate in U.S. history, and the ...

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Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Even Richard Nixon‘s ...