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Hello. Hello and thanks for downloading witness history from the BBC World Service.

All this week we are looking back at key moments in the US presidency. We begin with an interview

from our archives about the election in 1960 of John F. Kennedy as president.

In 2010 Lucy Williamson spoke to someone who knew JFK well,

his former aide and speechwriter Ted Surrinson.

It's November the 8th, 1960.

Roozing heavyweight boxing contest with the two boxers

slugging toe to toe 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 being the American people who are at this moment still casting their ballots across 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.

Those two men were Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy,

one an established politician who had already served as the country's vice president.

The other a 43 year old Catholic, known to many simply by his initials JFK.

He'd risen quickly through the Democratic Party ranks helped by his close

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