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The History Hour: US presidential history special

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31/10/2020 GMT

US presidential history special

BBC World Service - The History Hour, US presidential history special

Inside JFK's election victory, plus Shirley Chisholm, Watergate, and the religious right

Inside JFK's election victory, plus the pioneering Shirley Chisholm, the Watergate hearings, the rise of the religious right and President Bush's 9/11

Eyewitness accounts of moments in US presidential history: Inside JFK's election victory, remembering Shirley Chisholm - the first African American from a major party to make a presidential run, plus a senator's account of the Watergate hearings, the rise of the religious right and the story of President Bush's 9/11.

Photo: US President John F. Kennedy giving his first State of the Union address to Congress in January 1961. (Credit: NASA/SSPL/Getty Images)

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