Video: '1960 Lyndon Johnson Speech to delegates of Democratic Convention at Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles'

(Tuesday, July 12, 1960, 3:00 p.m. PDT; during the 1960 Democratic National Convention) — U.S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas made his big pitch for the Democratic presidential nomination today with a stump speech to an audience of Texans — plus his chief rival Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts — at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Continue reading JFK and LBJ meet in TV ‘debate’ 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 12 1960) →

Video: 'TNC:27 (excerpt) Truman Criticism of JFK'

(Saturday, July 2, 1960; during the 1960 Democratic Party presidential primaries) — Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman said at a news conference today in Independence, Missouri, that Democratic Party front-runner John F. Kennedy lacked the maturity to be President, and that Kennedy should “put aside” his personal ambitions and decline the nomination. Continue reading Former President Truman urges JFK to ‘put aside’ personal ambitions 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 2 1960) →

Video: '1960: Be A Man- Sell Out (1970 documentary narrated by Peter Jennings)' (protests in Japan at 8:28)

(Friday, June 10, 1960) — President Dwight Eisenhower’s press secretary, James C. Hagerty, appointments secretary Thomas E. Stephens and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II had their car surrounded by stone-throwing demonstrators today in Tokyo and were trapped inside for an hour and a half at Haneda International Airport before a U.S. Marine helicopter rescued them.

Eisenhower set off on his tour of the Far East the next day and refused to postpone his trip to Japan.