1960 U.S. Presidential Election Ad - Harry Belafonte for John F. Kennedy

Ad from the 1960 United States presidential election. The Republican Party nominated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, while the Democratic Party nominated John F. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts. This was the first presidential election in which voters in Alaska and Hawaii were able to participate (both had become states in 1959). It is notable as being the first presidential election in which both major party candidates were born in the 20th Century. It was also the first one in which two incum