EDITOR’S NOTE: An occasional series on the enduring impact of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 50 years ago. This first story sets the young president’s loss in the context of a tumultuous year, 1963. 

Picture: Associated Press • In this Aug. 28, 1963, file photo, The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington. Picture: Associated Press • In this Nov. 22, 1963, file photo, the limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races toward the hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas. Secret Service agent Clinton Hill is riding on the back of the car, Nellie Connally, wife of Texas Gov. John Co...Picture: Associated Press • In this Aug. 28, 1963, file photo, the top of the Washington Monument and part of a U.S. flag are reflected in the sunglasses of Austin Clinton Brown, 9, of Gainesville, Ga., as he poses at the Capitol where he joins others in the March on Washington. Picture: Associated Press • In this Oct. 26, 1963, file photo, a young fan hugs George Harrison as The Beatles play at a pop festival in Stockholm, Sweden.

 
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