First Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate

View from the control room of presidential candidates Senator John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) (in dark suit at left in background, and on the two left-most monitor screens in foreground) and Vice President Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994) (in light suit center in background, and on right-hand monitor in foreground) as they appear on the first-ever televised Presidential debate, at WBBM-TV studios, Chicago, Illinois, 26th September 1960. Debate host Howard K. Smith sits at a table between them in background). This was the first-ever televised presidential debate in the USA. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)