Video: '"American Experience" THE KENNEDYS: Part 1, The Father, (1900-1961)' (1946 campaign at 43:00)

(Tuesday, June 18, 1946, polls closed at 8:00 p.m. EDT) — John F. Kennedy, seeking his first public office, won today’s Democratic primary for the 11th Congressional seat in Massachusetts, out polling his nearest rival Mike Neville 19,426 votes to 10,875 votes to face Republican Lester Bowen in the general election.