The race for kennedy until 7 00 in the morning. And when they did make that call for kennedy, they were actually wrong about which states everybody had won at that point. Kennedy did actually win the election, and nixon did formally concede around lunchtime the following day. The day after election day. But that race was nuts. And this is great. I got something to show you. Michael beshloss tipped us off to this. In the archives, this is great. Part of what was nuts about watching the election returns, that close, close year in 1960, was in addition to the drama of the close race, in addition to the back and forth about who was winning and where and whether or not that was really a concession, do you think that was a concession . I mean, in addition to all of the just native organic drama of that contest, that night in 1960 was also the night that the tv networks chose to unveil their brandnew, mysterious, unknowable, computing machines. That was basically the tv sideshow act that year
And when they did make that call for kennedy, they were actually wrong about which states everybody had won at that point. Kennedy did actually win the election and nixon did formally concede around lunchtime the following day, the day after election. But that race was nuts. This is great. Ive got something to show you. This is great. Michael beschloss tipped us off on to this stuff. We went into the archives and found out today. Part of what was nuts about watching the election returns in 1960, was in addition to the drama of the close race and 40 was winning and where and whether or not that was really a concession, do you think that was a concession . In addition to all the native, organic drama of that contest, that night in 1960 was also the night that the tv networks chose to unveil their brandnew mysterious, unknowable computing machines. That was basically the tv side show act that year alongside the election. These gigantic beeping machines that could somehow tell who was goin
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