The 1960 Presidential Election in the United States. The U.S. flag displayed on a building on the election day. Cars moving down a road. Boards displayed in front of banks and other business places declaring the day to be a legal holiday. People gathered outside schools and community halls. People voting through paper ballots. People waiting in a queue to vote using an automatic voting machine. Men and women reading a printed paper to choose the Presidential or the Vice Presidential candidates. A man inside a polling booth enters an area separated by a curtain and casts his vote in a polling machine. Men and women walking past officers seated at a table in the booth. People casting their votes in ballot boxes. A ballot box has 'Town Of Barnstable' written on it. A man turning a lever on the box. A woman placing a ballot paper in the box. 'State Election, Official Ballt, Barnstable' written on the ballot paper. The number on the box changes from 843 to 844. Another man placing a ballot paper in the box.
The 1960 Presidential Election in the United States. A helicopter landing on a field in Pennsylvania. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with officials disembarks from the helicopter. Photographers taking pictures of the President. The President shaking hands with a few officials. Cars parked outside a building. The Barlow Firemen's Hall building. President Eisenhower standing with the officials inside the hall. Photographers taking pictures. A clock showing 7 O' clock. The President takes a ballot paper from an officer at a polling station and goes inside an area separated by a curtain and casts his vote. The President puts the ballot paper in a ballot box. President's wife Mamie Eisenhower casting her vote in the voting booth. Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. and his wife at a polling booth in Maryland viewing polling procedures. A woman officer showing a voting machine to the dignitaries. Republican Presidential candidate Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon cast their votes at a polling station in a town in California. They put ballot papers in a ballot box. Democratic Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy casting their votes at a polling booth in Boston, Massachusetts. Several reporters taking pictures at the booth. Boards on buildings indicating a legal holiday on the election day. People entering a building to cast their votes. Burmese Ambassador to the U.S. at a polling booth in New York. View of Burmese officials. People in a queue at polling booths on the election day to cast votes. The U.S. flag and people at a polling booth.
The 1960 Presidential Election in the United States. Interiors of a building show NBC News and CBS News Election Tracking headquarters and television studio operations. Board tracking the election result returns. A man behind a camera. Many news employees inside the building. The men preparing to broadcast the results of the elections. Interiors of a television network headquarters shows men and women at tabulating machines and electronic computers. A huge crowd gathered at the Republican Party headquarters. A few men and women beside a tally board updating election results. People in the crowd looking at a board. The board showing Presidential candidates Richard Nixon's and John F. Kennedy's count of votes in states Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota and several other states. A woman in the crowd looking through binoculars. The figures show Kennedy leading. The moving ticker bulletin board in Times Square, New York City, is shown reading "Kennedy Overcomes Slow Start, Pulls ahead of Nixon" as the counting continues. The Times Square moving bulletin reads 'Kennedy wins Connecticut's 8 Electoral votes, Sweeps all'. A crowd cheering and shouting 'We Want Kennedy'. The bulletin reading 'Kennedy leads in 17 states with 192 electoral votes'. A CBS news worker beside a map showing the states and the position of Republican and Democratic candidates in each state. A bulletin reading 'Kennedy stage see-saw battle in Virginia'. Men inside the television network headquarters including Walter Cronkite. Close up view of a camera being used to film the television news broadcast. A board showing position of the candidates in the election.
The 1960 Presidential Election in the United States. A television broadcast showing Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy's lead in the Presidential Election. A correspondent recording figures on a sheet of paper. The returns in a tabulating machine checked by Kennedy's press secretary. The interiors of the press headquarters of the Democratic Presidential candidate in Massachusetts. Men and women viewing a television. The television commentator announces that Republican Presidential Richard Nixon is about to make a statement. A clock showing 3.20 AM. Richard Nixon with his wife Pat Nixon in California, standing behind a podium in front of a tally board which shows Presidential Election summary. Nixon waves at the crowd. His speech being broad casted on television. Richard Nixon talks about the importance of how elections work in the United States, that they are hard fought, but once the decision is made we united behind the man who is elected, and he says that if Kennedy goes on to win the election and becomes the President of the United States then Kennedy will have his whole hearted support. The crowd cheering and applauding. Nixon waving at the crowd. Men and women going out of a building. Vacant chairs in the Republican Party headquarters. A tally board showing figures of the election results. A few men and women in the headquarters.
John F. Kennedy wins election in the United States. View of the Out-of-Town Newspapers news stand at the base of the New York Times building at One Times Square. Newspaper headlines on newsstand read 'President Elect Kennedy', 'Kennedy New President' and 'Kennedy Wins Presidency'. The Daily News headlines reads 'Elected' with a photograph of John F. Kennedy. A man holding a 'New York Mirror' newspaper on which the headline reads 'Extra Kennedy!'. President-elect John F. Kennedy at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Photographers take pictures. Kennedy picks up his daughter Caroline and poses with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy. President-elect Kennedy with his wife, his parents and brothers and sisters at a meeting in Hyannis Port. Kennedy, during his speech, says that the next four years are going to be difficult and challenging. He requests the citizens for a national effort in moving the country through the 1960s. Kennedy also promises that all the decrees he possesses will be utilized for the cause of the country. Crowd applauds. John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy smiling.
Drawings and sketches of Washington DC in the 18th and early 19th Century. A film titled 'Washington, D.C., A Living City', United States. 19th Century photographs including: view of a street in Washington DC with several buildings on either side of the road. View of a document entitled "Plan of the Dress Circle of Ford's New Theater, 10th Street, Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian "castle" building (1000 Jefferson Dr SW, Washington, DC 20560, United States), with a canal filled with water. View of Pennsylvania Avenue, with the Post Office building on the right. Open trolley cars moving in the street. The United States Capitol (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States) is seen from a distance.
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