Photo Of The Day

While part of every candidate’s retinue, security was simply not the pressing, public concern in 1960 that it would suddenly and necessarily become within a few short years. Here, seemingly alone in a crowd in Logan County, West Virginia, JFK speaks from a kitchen chair as, mere feet away, a young boy absently plays with a jarringly realistic-looking toy gun.

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