Video: 'Kennedy Humphrey WV Primary Debate Complete'

(Wednesday, May 4, 1960, 8:30 p.m. EDT; during the 1960 Democratic Party presidential primaries) — In the very first televised Democratic presidential debate, Senators John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey convened tonight in Charleston, six days ahead of West Virginia’s May 10, 1960, primary, but generated little controversy except over their individual aspirations for the nomination.