Kennedy-Nixon Taft-Hartley Debate

Kennedy-Nixon Taft-Hartley Debate is a Pennsylvania historical marker in McKeesport, Allegheny County, dedicated 2012.

122 Fifth Ave., McKeesport

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On April 21, 1947, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon debated the Taft-Hartley Labor-Management Relations Act at the Penn-McKee Hotel. The first debate between the two House Labor Committee members was a precursor to the iconic Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate of 1960.

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1904 · Mc Keesport, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1907 · Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1907 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1924 · Pennsylvania, Western Section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1927 · Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Kennedy-Nixon Taft-Hartley Debate

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