Time Capsule: Progressive Party Candidate Challenges Eisenhower and Stevenson to Televised Debate on Korea

Crusading labor lawyer Vincent Hallinan, the Progressive Party candidate for president, challenged GOP presidential standard-bearer Dwight D. Eisenhower and Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson to a public television debate on the war in Korea on this day in 1952. Speaking at a rally in Brooklyn, the Progressive Party nominee […]

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