26 September 1960 · Chicago
The night the audio and the pictures disagreed
The received story is that radio listeners thought Nixon won and television viewers thought Kennedy did. The survey evidence for that is thin, but the recording lets you test it yourself: this is the sound alone, with no makeup, no lighting, and no camera cutaways.
The Republic · 58 min · Public domain
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