Following the debate, most TV viewers believed that Kennedy had been the victor. Conversely though, radio listeners found that Nixon had a slight edge over Kennedy.

Former President Trump and President Biden's match-up at the CNN Presidential Debate is raising comparisons to John F. Kennedy's debate with Richard Nixon.

Lyndon B. Johnson was too intimidated by the medium to take on Barry Goldwater in 1964, and Nixon, having been burned before, refused to debate on TV in both 1968 and 1972.

Nixon was used to radio and, in fact, those who listened to the debate on radio thought Nixon won. However, those who watched on TV thought differently. Kennedy smiled and was handsome and ...

Exactly 56 years ago, on Sept. 26, 1960, the first-ever nationally televised debate between presidential candidates took place in Chicago. Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, and Vice ...

If you were watching television on the night of Sept. 26, 1960, you probably thought that the young Sen. John F. Kennedy had won that night's presidential debate. Yet if you heard the event on ...

On Sept. 26, 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy met for the first ever televised presidential debate.

On this day in 1960, some 77 million Americans watched Sen. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, the two-term vice president, meet in the first-ever televised presidential debate.

Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon participated the first ever televised debate on Sept. 26, 1960 at the old CBS Chicago studios. Bill Kurtis reports on the history of ...

In WBBM-TV studios in Chicago on September 26, 1960, presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy stood before cameras and hot lights for the first-ever televised presidential debate.

Others posted messages claiming that presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon participated in a virtual debate in 1960. So, did Nixon and Kennedy ... on radio and television of ...