Video: '‘The biggest news in the country!’ / Lawrence O’Donnell, Edward Brooke'

(Tuesday, November 8, 1966, during the United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1966) — Edward W. Brooke today became the first black candidate to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote by defeating former Governor Endicott Peabody with 1,213,473 votes to 744,761.