Interviewees discuss the debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon during the presidential election of 1960 - sometimes called "The Great Debates."
About
“I gave Nixon eighteen-and-a-half points to Kennedy's eighteen. So I gave it to Nixon. But I couldn't see them. They were ahead of me facing the camera that way. So I was listening to it on radio as it were. Later when I went back and saw it replayed, I could see that Kennedy swept it. He just looked so enchanting." - Howard K. Smith, Journalist/News Anchor
Highlights
News Correspondent Howard K. Smith on moderating the first of the Kennedy-Nixon Debates
02:05
Lighting Director Imero Fiorentino on lighting the 1960 Presidential debates starting with the second one, following the first debate wherein Richard Nixon looked badly, making the best improvements he could; also the issues he had lighting JFK due to RFK's interference
06:04
Frank Stanton on his associations with John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, and on the Kennedy-Nixon debate
04:32
Thomas W. Moore on ABC covering the 1952 conventions, and on how presidents starting with Dwight D. Eisenhower took to television
07:55
Sig Mickelson on selecting Howard K. Smith as the moderator of the first of the Kennedy-Nixon Debates
01:00
Who Talked about This Topic
Bob Doyle
Bob Doyle on the Kennedy-Nixon Debates, and on knowing John F. Kennedy
02:12
Imero Fiorentino
Lighting Director Imero Fiorentino on lighting the 1960 Presidential debates starting with the second one, following the first debate wherein Richard Nixon looked badly, making the best improvements he could; also the issues he had lighting JFK due to RFK's interference
06:04
Murray Fromson
Murray Fromson on covering Henry Cabot Lodge (Richard M. Nixon's running mate) for NBC News during the 1960 election, and watching the Kennedy-Nixon debates with Lodge
01:04
Leonard H. Goldenson
Leonard H. Goldenson on a photo of Richard Nixon; on his working relationship with Nixon and on the Nixon-Kennedy debates
03:21
Don Hewitt
Don Hewitt on producing the Kennedy-Nixon debates
01:39
Don Hewitt on the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Debates
06:02
Sig Mickelson
Sig Mickelson on organizing the details of the Kennedy-Nixon Debates
03:43
Sig Mickelson on the Kennedy-Nixon Debates
06:26
Thomas W. Moore
Thomas W. Moore on the Kennedy/Nixon debates of 1960
05:51
Thomas W. Moore on the Kennedy-Nixon Debates
10:10
Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn on being an advisor to the John F. Kennedy campaign
06:00
Howard K. Smith
News Correspondent Howard K. Smith on moderating the first of the Kennedy-Nixon Debates
02:05
Frank Stanton
Frank Stanton on his associations with John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, and on the Kennedy-Nixon debate
04:32