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PRIMARY
November 21, 2013  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This 1960 documentary by Robert Drew captured politics right before politics and TV got wise to one another. The 1960 debates between Republican candidate Richard M. Nixon (the current vice president) and Democrat John F. Kennedy were the first televised presidential debates in history, and changed everything. But before that, when Kennedy was still politicking for the nomination of his party on the presidential ticket and fighting for delegates, filmmaker Drew caught the momentum, and the mistakes, by capturing one particular local campaign battle: the 1960 Wisconsin primary held that April. JFK and fellow senator Hubert H. Humphrey are the primary combatants – and of all the JFK-themed materials this month, this remains, 50 years later, one of the most enlightening and unguarded.

 
 
 
 
 
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