JOHN F. KENNEDY
May 29, 1917-November 22, 1963
Part of a frame of a film screened at the JFK Library, Boston, in connection with a commemoration of the Cuban Missile Crisis and its resolution. Perhaps this is from THIRTEEN DAYS? Shall have to check.
This is not the whole frame as presented in the film, and it is not a cropping afterwards. I deliberately used a telephoto lens in the kind of extreme close-up I have often used in my photojournalistic work.
Here I wanted to catch something of the intensity of crisis as it was lived through, and the president's centrality to it, for better and possibly, in part, for worse (the possibility that his actions caused Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to misjudge him).
Since President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize has just been in the news again (for snubbing or being snubbed by his "fellow Peace Prizewinner" Lech Walesa), it does give one a bit of pause that neither Kennedy nor Khrushchev nor the two in tandem were given such an honor.
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