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Few moments in the 20th century have been examined and probed in greater detail than the events that occurred in dallas, texas, on the morning of november 22, 1963. When three shots were fired in rapid succession from an open sixth floor window above dealey plaza, the course of our nation’s history was irrevocably changed. The youthful and eloquent president of the united states, the standard bearer of a new and passionate generation, was dead. In the terrible sadness of the days and weeks that followed the sudden, tragic death of president john f. Kennedy officials at the united states mint received numerous letters and telegrams suggesting a "coin of the united states be struck in honor of our late president, john fitzgerald kennedy."1 at the time, changing the designs on our circulating coinage was not nearly as common as it is today. A new reverse design featuring the lincoln memorial was released for the one-cent coin in 1959, but to this day the obverse portrait of president ab