John F. Kennedy, A Life

A half a century has passed since the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy left Americans dazed and shattered. The traumatic - indeed, unimaginable - events that November day in Dallas still shape our perceptions of him and his thousand-day presidency. Now it’s sometimes hard for us to separate the man from the myth. Who was he, really? And why does he matter to us today, fifty years after his death? Here, in this Snap, is his story.