CNN —Editor’s Note: This essay is adapted from Chris Wallace’s book, “Countdown 1960.”The 1960 presidential election changed everything.
Countdown 1960 is the riveting new history by Chris Wallace, bestselling author of Countdown 1945 and Countdown bin Laden, offering a fresh take on 1960 and the dramatic 11 months leading up to a deeply relevant election for the ages.
To put it simply: There is good reason to believe the presidential election of 1960 was stolen.
And yet, in 1960, the candidate who “lost” refused to contest the results and interfere with the peaceful transfer of power.
Kennedy won Illinois and its 27 electoral votes by just 8,858 votes out of more than 4.7 million cast.
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