 This is the first one. That's right. The University of California Santa Barbara's American Presidency Project has transcripts of each presidential debate since the first televised debates in 1960. And in 1960, JFK and Nixon debated in the first televised debate. It was filmed in a television studio without a live audience. I remember watching it with my dad and mom. And the next time there was a presidential debate was in 1976 between President Ford and Jimmy Carter.