2013 – 5 euro silver SAN MARINO John Fitzgerald Kennedy in folder

50th Anniversary of the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Silver coins proof Weight: 18 Gr. – Silver title: 925/1000 – Diameter: 32 mm.

Kennedy, of Irish descent, also known by the nickname “Jack”, was the first president of the United States of America Catholic. It was also the first US President to be born in the twentieth century and the youngest to die holding the post. His brief presidency, in the era of the Cold War, was marked by some very relevant events: landing in the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the conquest of space, the background to the War Vietnam and the rise of the movement for civil rights of African Americans.

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the murder and was in turn killed two days later by Jack Ruby before he could be tried. The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had acted alone; However, in 1979, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations declared that the act of Oswald was probably the result of a conspiracy. The question of whether Oswald had acted alone or not remains debated, with the existence of numerous conspiracy theories. The assassination of Kennedy was a focal event in the history of the United States for the impact it had on the nation and on the country’s politics. To date, the figure of Kennedy continues to receive respect and appreciation. Wikipedia