The Nixon-Khrushchev “Kitchen Debate”

• Date: 

  1959
• Duration: 

  15 min. 36 sec.
• Colour: 

  Colour
• Sound: 

  Sound
• Category: 

  Video
• Observations: 

  An impromptu debate between the then American Vice President, Richard Nixon, and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, at the opening of the American National Exhibition mounted in Sokolniki Park in Moscow. Aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on 25 July 1959.
• Work temporarily loaned to the Collection. Courtesy of Library of Congress.
• On display in:

  Room 411 - The American Way of Life. Sala Autric-Tamayo