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1960 Kennedy-Nixon Debate (Part I) (1960)

A kinescope of the John F Kennedy and Richard M Nixon presidential debate.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Audio/Visual: sound, B&W
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Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: 1StepBeyond - - July 24, 2009
Subject: A chance to see how things were
Kennedy sounds a lot more conservative than I remembered at that time. He and Nixon were worthy opponents but they were definitely facing the future with courage and hope. Appearance wise Kennedy looked more at ease than Nixon but laws are signed behind closed doors by people holding pens in their hands, without cameras recording hairdos and suite colors.

Reviewer: soulkitch - - February 18, 2009
Subject: Show some respect
I too agree that it is simply ridiculous for people to be complaining about sound quality and whatnot. Give me a break you guys are losers.

Reviewer: FP - - November 8, 2008
Subject: Digitally restored debate
There is a version with cleaned-up, enhanced picture and sound available here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TIwaKfzS2c

Reviewer: Scribble - - November 11, 2007
Subject: lack of appreciation
I can't believe the attitude expressed by some of the reviewers here...this is a free resource of thousands of films, do you have any idea how much work it takes to maintain it? The archive relies of users to alert them to problems, not to make snide comments and unreasonable demands of a FREE resource...

Regardless of what you think of Nixon and Kennedy, it is a part of history that need to be easily available...should we just burn the films just 'cause we find them distasteful? Perhaps we should delete Hitler from the history books as well...

Reviewer: royyor - - May 21, 2007
Subject: I Can't Even Describe It
[\s sound clip of Kennedy-Nixon is the most ludicrous piece of shit I have ever listened to. Not only is the audio quality TERRIBLE, AND I MEAN TERRIBLE, who gives a shit about these two?? Not me. don't download this shit it is a waste of your time.

-Musa aboutalep

Reviewer: jdreier933 - - April 16, 2007
Subject: No Sound on Download
I use this for my high school history class, and project it on a big screen, however the larger downloadable MPEG2 does not have any sound attached. This site has a number of excellent primary resources, this being one, however it was a major disappointment that I wasn't able to use it.

Reviewer: tracey pooh - - October 4, 2005
Subject: Audio is fixed!
OK, I've fixed the audio for this program
(with our new deriver).

--tracey, webmaster

Reviewer: Guillermo A. Martinez (de Argentina) - - June 9, 2005
Subject: Detalles tecnicos y como editarlo correctamente.
Esta pelicula tiene 00:16:11 mins. del cual el sonido tiene una duracion de 8:31 seg. (Por eso tiene un sonido acelerado). Por eso para prevenir ese problema y hacer que el sonido es correcto, uds pueden seguir estos pasos:

Necesitan estos programas.
1: TMPGEnc: (Para editar la pelicula en Mpg, VCD)
2: Goldwave: (Editor de audio)

Primero debemos pasar la pelicula sin editar, solo descomprimimos el audio, cancelamos la edicion y vamos a File/Output to File/Wave File.
(Aca pasamos el sonido en Wave), ahora vamos al Goldwave y vemos que el sonido tiene una duracion aprox de 8 minutos, del cual dura 16 minutos (duracion video) el resto es sin sonido.

Borramos el fragmento sin sonido y tenemos la parte con sonido pero con el sonido rapido, ahora vamos a la seccion "Playback Rate" y ponemos aprox. 20400 (casi similar a esto, ahora no recuerdo cual es el correcto. Debe durar 16:11:804) en esta opcion el Goldwave va a poner casi (en milisegundos) 16:11:800. una vez que pongamos "lento" el sonido debemos ver si dura la misma velocidad del video, si es asi debemos grabar el audio (resample) en el formato correcto que el TMPEGEnc lea. Una vez que sea compatible vamos al programa mencionado y editamos el video y ponemos el sonido que editamos, y configuramos el video a gusto.

Una nota adicional: Al relentizar el audio posiblemente pierda un poco la calidad, esto es porque es "Rapido" a "Lento".

Espero que estas instrucciones puedan servir de algo.

Reviewer: ixnayontheottenray - - August 8, 2004
Subject: Audio at wrong speed
What's going on here. With this stream the audio is too fast. I tried to stream some of the Panucci montages earlier on and the audio was running too slowly. Does anyone maintain this site??

Reviewer: Scantron - - April 26, 2004
Subject: bad audio
mpeg-4 audio is messed up. Sounds like chipmunks.

Part II is okay.

Reviewer: Dennis57 - - January 13, 2004
Subject: Kennedy-Nixon Debate Part I
Downloaded the MPEG2...Video is great but audio is missing from Part I.

Reviewer: Melkor - - August 28, 2003
Subject: Next
Part II