When John F. Kennedy was elected president 50 years ago , aliveness — and technology — was much different . This brief feeling , determine overat the BigPicture , is part of a monolithic $ 10 million effort to digitize the JFK Library photo archives .
Yes , that ’s a toy gun in that little fry ’s hand . Can you imagine this scene ever pass off again with a modern mean solar day chairperson ?
Photographer Paul Schutzer takes aim at his colleagues during Kennedy ’s 1960 presidential political campaign in Illinois .
President Kennedy peers into the space capsule during a 1962 medla presentation to astronaut Col . John Glenn , Jr. Perhaps you ’ve heard of him too ?
The space program was a built-in part of the Kennedy Administration . Seen here are President Kennedy with Florida Senator George Smathers , look up at a Saturn Rocket . [ The Big Picture ]
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