Thanks to tapes LBJ made of his own phone conversations we get a view into history like we’ve never heard before on Raise The Dead. Power and paranoia on full display. His battles with old nemesis Bobby Kennedy lead a man on the brink of landslide to draft a letter of resignation. All the while, Vietnam looms is the distance.

Meanwhile, Barry Goldwater deals with a floundering campaign as a prime example of DC’s excess continues to fester.

All that and the birth of the modern television campaign ad in the season finale of Raise The Dead.

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Yet beyond their visions for the country, they are almost identical in how their own parties viewed them as dangerous, radical extremists. And more to the point, how hard both worked to kill their campaigns. Barry’s story in 1964 gives us a blueprint of what happened behind closed doors in the Democratic primary of 2020.

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Meanwhile, Republican support begins pooling around upstart Barry Goldwater despite establishment worries that his brand of inflexible conservatism is irresistible to fringe groups like the John Birch Society.

After an unforeseen tragedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson takes charge.

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Plus… we reveal the theme of the next season!

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In 1960, Richard Nixon is about to begin his journey as humiliated laughing stock to redemption. In 2016, Hillary Clinton hopes she’s at the end of her own eight year odyssey. In 1960, John F. Kennedy waits with his loyal team of family and friends. In 2016, Donald Trump waits with mercenaries who pass out their cards to the press so they can secure work after their current boss falls short.

At the end, both losing sides cry foul. So what is the truth about the election conspiracy of 1960? Did JFK really use illegal means to get elected? We explore in the season finale of Raise The Dead.

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The misunderstood 1960 televised debates, the role of LBJ in settling the South, Nixon’s meltdown, the Kennedy media brilliance and cold-hearted handling of a pair of famous race issues.

Election Day is nigh. Who will survive to see it?

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What does the first convention of the primary era tell us about egos, attacks and the decisions that change a candidate’s life forever?

A Game of Thrones-level intrigue abounds on this episode of Raise the Dead.

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The origin story of the most notorious American politician in modern history eventually sees him facing an insurrection in his own party on the eve of his coronation as their nominee. But before that a poor kid from Southern California has to battle his way to the top of the political food chain.

Commie bashing, the most watched television broadcast in history and the moment the GOP changed forever on this episode of Raise The Dead.

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They will run in the primaries, thought to be a death trap for serious candidates who normally wait for the convention. They face Hubert Humphrey a progressive slatwart and known quantity in the first contest: Wisconsin. 

What’s more? There is a member of Democratic Party royalty who distrusts the family and would love nothing more than to crush the dreams of JFK. Her name is Eleanor Roosevelt and she uses her position to do just that.

Bare knuckle politics, corrupt local machines, mob ties and the birth of the modern primary tradition on this episode of Raise The Dead!

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As we tell the story of the 1960 election, the answer might surprise you.

The story starts a plan. Old Joe Kennedy’s plan.

His son, the future first Irish Catholic president, is in an airplane about to strike a decisive blow against Hitler in 1944.

His son, the future first Irish Catholic president, is giving a career-defining speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1956.

The journey between these moments sets into motion a conflict only resolved with the 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. The process invents templates and sets precedents Barack Obama and Donald Trump use successfully decades later.

So who did Donald Trump model his 2016 campaign after? Well John F. Kennedy only won one campaign for the White House and his slogan was “Get America Moving Again.”

If 1960 is so important, why don’t you know more about it?

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Keep that thought to yourself for a second as I remind you that JFK and Nixon ran against each other in 1960. A member of a popular two-term administration ran against a phenom running without permission. The race saw a revolutionary use of new media. The side that lost tells anyone who will listen that nefarious outside help tipped the election.

This is the story of 1960 and if we'd known more about it we'd have been less surprised when the events replayed themselves in 2016.

John F. Kennedy only won one race for the White House and his slogan for that race was "Get American Moving Again"

News dies and becomes history, but tonight? We Raise the Dead.

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