The 1960 presidential election changed everything. It was the first to feature televised debates between the two major-party candidates. It was the first in which both candidates were born in the ...

Results of the 1960 election are featured and discussed by author David Pietrusza. In the 1960 presidential election, Democratic Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts narrowly defeated incumbent ...

As the 2024 presidential election barrels toward razor-thin results, it’s worth recalling Chicago’s outsize role in the 1960 election, one of the tightest presidential votes in history.