Tonight is the first of three debates between presidential candidates Sen. John McCain and Barack Obama. The debate lineup will also include one meeting between vice presidential candidates Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin.
The first televised presidential debate took place in 1960 between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazmVHAO0os
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Eight years after Nixon lost to Kennedy, he and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, as the major presidential candidates of 1968, were the first people interviewed for a new CBS news magazine program called "60 Minutes." The original hosts were Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner - both of whom have gone on to journalism immortality, along with Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft and Lesley Stahl. Other prominent correspondents have included Dan Rather and Diane Sawyer.
Safer, who has been a "60 Minutes" correspondent since 1970, Kroft and Stahl are still part of the program, along with Bob Simon and Scott Pelley, and sometime correspondents, including Anderson Cooper, Lara Logan and, once in a while, Wallace. Also, commentator Andy Rooney has been part of the program since 1978.
Broadcasting & Cable had a special report on the program in its Sep. 20 issue:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6597840
And when CBS celebrated its 75th anniversary, the program featured a tribute (The YouTube clip obviously came from a local station....):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPkiJSAy8Go
So Happy 40th to 60 Minutes. Long may it tick.
See you next week. Until then, Happy Viewing!
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