Fifty years after the assassination
of John F. Kennedy, The Atlantic has resurfaced some of its best journalism about the 35th president and his legacy in a new collection: JFK In His Time and Ours. Although Kennedy was in office for barely more than a thousand days, his presidency and his presence on the world stage had a huge historical impact. Much of that was captured in photographs of the time, following the handsome son of a wealthy businessman from childhood to the most powerful office in the world, until it all ended in tragedy in Dallas