Episode Details

I asked - you answered!

This week I am going to give you a run down of the history of political debates in American History. Did you know the first televised presidential debate was between two women and was 4 years before the infamous 1960 Kennedy / Nixon debates? Listen for this and much more on this week's listener requested episode of the history of debates.

Sources Used This Episode:

• The Commission on Presidential Debates: Debate History
• LINK: https://www.debates.org/debate-history/1960-debates
• Seven Things You May Not Know about Presidential Debates by Christopher Klein, History.com
• LINK: https://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-may-not-know-about-u-s-presidential-debates
• How Presidential Debates Work by Josh Clark & Melanie Radzicki McManus 
• LINK: https://people.howstuffworks.com/debate1.htm
• PBS News Hour Extra
• LINK: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/app/uploads/2015/12/HANDOUT-4-HISTORY-OF-DEBATES.pdf
• The First Televised Presidential Debate, United States Sentate
• LINK: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_First_Televised_Presidential_Debate.htm#:~:text=The%20typical%20answer%20to%20that,not%20appear%20in%20the%20debate.
• Campaign of 1960, The John F Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
• LINK: https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/campaign-of-1960
• The Kennedy-Nixon Debates by History.com Editors, History.com
• https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/kennedy-nixon-debates
• The League of Women Voters and Candidate Debates: A Changing Relationship
• LINK: https://www.lwv.org/league-women-voters-and-candidate-debates-changing-relationship
• These Truths by Jill Lepore
• Celebrating Women on Face the Nation, CBS Face the Nation
• LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhQRJNV_Rqc

Support the show