How JFK Won The 1960 Presidential Election

Nixon and Kennedy were running for president, and about half the population watched the presidential debate on television, and about half the population listened to the debate on the radio. In the first 30 seconds of the debate, neither of them speak. And if you were watching, you saw, wow, Nixon looks so weak. And here's why. What most people don't know is that Nixon had just injured his knee on the campaign trail, and he'd been in the hospital for the week. So here's your first snapshot of the debate, and you see Kennedy humility, hands relax, sitting tall. And then you see Nixon, who's, like, ready to leave. And we see these cues, and people already made their decision. Nixon lost the election to Kennedy, and he said in his memoirs, that's why.