“Voters Give Kennedy and Johnson Edge” headline allowed the Bolivar Bulletin-Times to record the historical victory of John F. Kennedy over Richard Nixon to become President of the United States.

Bolivar Bulletin-Times looks back at a 150 years of news

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 10:29 Bolivar1

As the Bulletin-Times continues to celebrate the 150 year anniversary of being Hardeman County’s news leader, this week we take a look back at 1960.
November 1960 brought the United States a new president. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 43, defeated Vice-President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon for the office of President of the United States.