History for the day: 1960: Kennedy-Nixon debate

From The New York Times:

On 26 September 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in Chicago, Illinois, as Richard M. Nixon, a Republican, and John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, squared off:

Rico says he was only eight, and thus barely remembers it, but his parents (both Democrats) watched avidly on their black & white television (remember that?) in Levittown, Pennsylvania...