Originally taken August 16, 1956 and was re-issued in 1960 after Kennedy won the Democratic nomination for president in 1960.
To be certain the photo is in the public domain, original registrations in the artwork category were checked for the original year of the photo, 1956 and in 1960, when UPI re-issued this photo. No registrations for UPI or United Press International were found for either year. There's no evidence that copyright was ever filed for this photo.
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