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1960 / 2016
Kennedy vs. Nixon
A six-part series on the 1960 election and its stunning parallels to 2016: television, celebrity, accusations of fraud and a campaign that permanently rewrote the playbook.
A documentary podcast by Justin Robert Young
Raise
The Dead
News dies and becomes history. But tonight? We raise the dead.
Two seasonsTwelve episodes
The premise
“This is the story of two elections, both of them unlike anything else—except each other.”
The invention of new media. Conspiracies of fraud. Rogue politicians bucking the system.
The precedents set and tactics invented in historic elections are still in use today. Raise The Dead returns to the recordings, reporting and personalities that made modern American politics.
The complete series
Listen to
Raise The Dead
Twelve documentary episodes across the elections of 1960 and 1964, plus trailers and a mailbag.
Two campaigns. One country.
The seasons
Read the footnotes
Primary
sources
The reading list from the original companion site has been preserved here.
01Season two — Johnson vs. Goldwater
02Season one — Chicago Mob
03Season one — Rat Pack / Frank Sinatra
04Season one — The 1960 race
05Season one — The 2016 election
Written and hosted by
Justin
Robert Young
Justin Robert Young is a podcaster and writer. He previously worked as a reporter at the Sun Sentinel and The Morning Call, debuted twice at #1 on the Billboard Comedy charts with Night Attack, and covers modern politics on Politics Politics Politics.
Justin likes to do his research in loud bars because it helps him focus.
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