Edward Kennedy and Edward McCormack Jr. debate in South Boston.

The two democratic U.S. Senate candidates face each other at South Boston High School. During one exchange McCormack, the state attorney general, says of Kennedy, an unpaid Suffolk County assistant district attorney, “If his name was Edward Moore, with his qualifications – with your qualifications, Teddy, your candidacy would be a joke.” Kennedy, whose campaign motto is “He’ll do more for Massachusetts,” goes on to defeat McCormack in the preliminary election in September 1962* and win the general election in November 1962.*