The Kennedy half dollar was first minted in 1964 in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — the coin’s ...

One of the smaller effects of JFK’s assassination is that the government put his image on half dollar coins beginning in 1964. Those coins permanently replaced the Benjamin Franklin 50-cent ...

The Kennedy half dollar was first minted in 1964 in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — the coin’s obvious namesake. It was a commemorative issuance made in Kennedy ...