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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My cousins grew up near there. Beautiful part of the world. And all toy guns used to be realistic and it wasn't jarring.

Anyway - spotter - you keep posting stuff that I have some random personal connection to - West Virginia, Marfa, the Battleship Texas, plus a few other things lately. At first it was all nostalgic, now I am just a teensy-weensy bit freaked out.