Recordings
Title
We Could be Making History : the Kennedy-Nixon Debates Revisited
Other Form of Name
Baughman, James L., 1952-
Identifier
debate_DVD_13
Creation Date
9-11-2008
Document Type
Video
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Description
James L. Baughman, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses the media and the presidential election of 1960, the first year that the presidential debates were televised. One of several "academic activities" held at the University of Mississippi preceding the first presidential debate of 2008.
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1960; Campaign debates -- United States; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917-1963; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994
Relational Format
video recording
Extent
01:14:00
Original Format
DVDs
Original Collection
Presidential Debate Collection (MUM01697), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
Finding Aid
Rights
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