Humphrey won the party's nomination on the first ballot after a two-hour debate among delegates the next day, defeating McCarthy 1759.25 to 601.
During the two-hour debate, the candidates were asked questions about a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues.
Here are excerpts from the two-hour debate, taped at the University of Pennsylvania on Dec. 3.
During the two-hour debate, dozens of people spoke.
Today's vote capped a tense two-hour debate in Parliament in which the members hurled insults at each other.
The topics for these two-hour debates were agreed in advance, and by common consent, did not explicitly include human rights issues.
Only three speakers made any specific mention at all of these terrorist groups during the two-hour plenary debate in Strasbourg on 10 April.
Let me remind colleagues that this afternoon we have a two-hour debate on war and peace issues.
The reasons for opposing the cigarette tax that arose during the almost two-hour debate on the Senate floor were varied.