General election · 26 September 1960

Presidential Debate in Chicago

Speaking turns

10,717 words transcribed

Candidates' share

83%

2 candidates

Moderators' share

17%

moderators, panellists, questioners

Crosstalk markers

5 turns end on a dash

The debate, turn by turn

Read left to right: each block is one turn, placed where it falls in the running word count and as wide as it is long.

Candidates Moderators, panellists, questioners Audience, recorded clips, unidentified

A stand-in for talk time.

Ticks are single turns; boxes span the middle half; the heavy bar is the median.

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Speakers in the Presidential Debate in Chicago
Speaker	Role	Turns	Words	Share	Median turn	Longest	Ends on a dash	Reading grade
Kennedy	Candidates	17	4,719	44.0%	194	1,256	2	9.7
Nixon	Candidates	10	4,127	38.5%	314	1,386	0	9.6
Smith	Moderators, panellists and questioners	23	717	6.7%	9	294	0	8.3
Fleming	Moderators, panellists and questioners	2	369	3.4%	185	328	0	10.3
Vanocur	Moderators, panellists and questioners	4	324	3.0%	79	157	1	12.4
Warren	Moderators, panellists and questioners	4	267	2.5%	69	115	0	10.5
Novins	Moderators, panellists and questioners	5	163	1.5%	10	77	2	12.7
Smth	Moderators, panellists and questioners	1	17	0.2%	17	17	0	–
Audience	Audience, recorded clips and unidentified	1	14	0.1%	14	14	0	–

The notebook's own Participants and Moderators fields, reproduced exactly by the TypeScript port.