CBS's Presper Eckert and Walter Cronkite, Election Night, 1952.

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Jordan Friedman is a writer and editor based in New York City. His work has appeared in publications including Fortune Magazine, USA TODAY, U.S. News &amp; World Report and Mental Floss.

Jordan Friedman

Jordan Friedman is a writer and editor based in New York City. His work has appeared in publications including Fortune Magazine, USA TODAY, U.S. News &amp; World Report and Mental Floss.

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America’s Founding Fathers decided that one elected civilian—the U.S. president—would lead the executive branch of the federal government, a governmental structure that has remained in place for more than 200 years.

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Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.

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The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the civil rights movement in the United States. At this time the U.S. economy was booming and more (mostly white) Americans could afford new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods. But the 1950s also saw great conflict and division, from the nascent civil rights movement to the crusade against communism at home and abroad in the Korean War.

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The Year Election Night First Became a TV Event