This LIFE magazine cover from August, 1961, featured a Karsh portrait of the 35th President of the United States. Karsh made this photograph of John F. Kennedy in 1960, when Kennedy was still a senator.
2017 marks the centenary of Kennedy’s birth.
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Cover: Courtesy LIFE/The Picture Collection, Inc.