LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
   Needle Park, LIFE magazine, Feb. 26, 1965
   Needle Park, LIFE magazine, Feb. 26, 1965
   Needle Park, LIFE magazine, Feb. 26, 1965
   Needle Park, LIFE magazine, Feb. 26, 1965
   Needle Park, LIFE magazine, Feb. 26, 1965
   Needle Park, LIFE magazine, Feb. 26, 1965
   Needle Park, LIFE magazine, Feb. 26, 1965
   Needle Park, LIFE magazine, Feb. 26, 1965
   LIFE Photo Essay
   In February 1965, LIFE magazine published an extraordinary photo essay
   and written by LIFE associate editor James Mills — were part of a
   clear-eyed and harrowing chronicle of, as LIFE phrased it, "two lives
   for some, among the most controversial that LIFE ever published. His
   LIFE — a portrait of two young people who have become, as they