Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory

Witness History

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History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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On 22 November 1963, United States President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lucy Williamson looks back to 8 November 1960, when Richard Nixon and JFK went toe to toe at the polls in a battle to become the next president. The narrow success made Kennedy the youngest man ever elected to the role. Close aide and speechwriter Ted Sorensen was with the politician on the night of the election. This programme was first broadcast in 2010. (Photo: US President-elect John F Kennedy shortly after his election in 1960. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service.
0:04.7	Join me as I serve up personal conversations
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0:11.2	Technology doesn't want to be good or bad.
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0:20.6	If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, you're
0:24.7	doing the wrong thing.
0:25.9	Julie, at your service.
0:27.8	Listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:41.0	60 years ago today on the 22nd of November 1963, the President of the United States,
0:49.2	John F. Kennedy, was assassinated on a sunny autumn day in Dallas, Texas.
0:55.0	So today we tell the story of how he was elected as president just three years before he was killed.
1:01.0	In 2010, Lucy Williamson spoke to someone who knew JFK well,
1:07.0	his former aide in speechwriter Ted Sorensen.
1:11.0	It's November the 8th, 1960.
1:13.4	Roozing heavyweight boxing contest with the two boxers slugging toe to toe
1:18.4	right up to the bell at the end of the 15th round. And now they and we await the judge's decision. The judges in this case
1:25.8	being the American people who are at this moment still casting their ballots across
1:29.5	the continent. They are deciding which of two men will form a new administration and of course become the leader of the non-communist world.
1:36.0	Those two men were Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy,
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