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JFK on the Separation of Church and State


 

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Senator John F. Kennedy speaking before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas on September 12, 1960.
Copyright: Kennedy Library Foundation

 

Kennedy-Nixon First Presidential Debate, 1960 (1960-2012)


 


On September 26, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon stood before an audience of 70 million Americans—two-thirds of the nation’s adult population—in the first nationally televised Presidential debate. This first of four debates held before the end of October gave a vast national audience the opportunity to see and compare the two candidates, and ushered in a new age of Presidential politics

Film footage © John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

For more archival videos from the 1960 Presidential Campaign, go tohttp://www.youtube.com/JFKLF

For more information on the 1960 Presidential Campaign, go tohttp://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/Campaign+of+196….