Editing International Amphitheatre (section)

===Presidential nominating conventions===
[[File:John Daly News 1956.JPG|thumb|[[John Charles Daly|John Daly]] and [[Quincy Howe]] providing [[CBS]]' coverage of the 1952 political conventions]]

The Amphitheatre hosted several national American presidential nominating conventions, with an overall record of 1-4:
*[[1952 Republican National Convention]] (nominated [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] for President and [[Richard Nixon|Richard M. Nixon]] for [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]; ticket won)
*[[1952 Democratic National Convention]] (nominated [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai E. Stevenson]] for President and [[John Sparkman|John J. Sparkman]] for Vice President; ticket lost)
*[[1956 Democratic National Convention]] (nominated Adlai E. Stevenson for President and [[Estes Kefauver]] for Vice President; ticket lost)
*[[1960 Republican National Convention]] (nominated Richard M. Nixon for President and [[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.]] for Vice President; ticket lost)
*[[1968 Democratic National Convention]] (nominated [[Hubert Humphrey|Hubert H. Humphrey]] for President and [[Edmund Muskie|Edmund S. Muskie]] for Vice President; ticket lost)

The [[1952 Republican National Convention]] had the distinction of being the first political convention broadcast live by television coast to coast, with special studio facilities provided for all the major networks.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNwDAAAAMBAJ&dq=true&pg=PA94| title=TV Goes to the Conventions| journal=[[Popular Mechanics]]| date=June 1952| pages=94–97}}</ref>

The [[1968 Democratic National Convention]] was one of the most tumultuous political conventions in American history, noted by [[Opposition to the Vietnam War|anti-war]] [[1968 Democratic National Convention protest activity|protests]].