If J.F.K would have stayed out of Texas, would Ben still be on the half dollar. If not, who or what

ChangeIsGood · June 17, 2005 9:38PM

Would there still be Franklins if Kennedy was still alive?
If not, what would be nice to see on the half dollar?

ritepath · June 17, 2005 10:10PM

well according to some Johnson and Bush 41 had plans for JFK (I don't mean John Forbes Kerry either) so if it wasn't gonna go down in Texas it would have been another location.

That being said: Nixon

nwcs · June 17, 2005 10:13PM

Hey, I was going to say Nixon, too!

TorinoCobra71 · June 17, 2005 10:34PM

It probably would have been either Reagan or Nixon..........

TorinoCobra71

ChangeIsGood · June 17, 2005 11:09PM

So the back of the Nixon half would be the Watergate hotel?

or
The back of the Reagan would be Nancy.

291fifth · June 17, 2005 11:13PM

Not only would Ben still be on the half dollar, the half dollar would still be seen regularly in circulation.

dlimb2 · June 17, 2005 11:42PM

I agree if it had not been for that day in Dallas it would have been somewhere else...I also think Ben would have stayed on the half....I also believe the assassination was from the inside.

ziggy29 · June 17, 2005 11:43PM

I think so, until this year. Starting this year, Reagan would be on it. Or perhaps JFK would still be on it, but only after he died, assuming he was dead (I think he'd be in his late 80s now).

MFH · June 18, 2005 12:23AM

I don't think there would have been a change until the death of Prsident Eisenhour and the half dollar would bear his likeness and we wouldn't have the Ike Dollar.

JMHO

bit1work · June 18, 2005 12:47AM

Looking back to the Civil Rights Movement during the late 60s, I will attempt to say Martin Luther King, Jr will replace Franklin on the half dollor.

I don't meant to offense anyone, but if JFK had not been shot, there will not be a half dollar change in 1964. And after a heated debate in both Houses, the bill would be passed with a narrow margin. The new MLK half will debute in 1973 (25 years of Franklins). And 1979 will still be the year for SBA dollar. Any thoughts?

ChangeIsGood · June 18, 2005 12:50AM

I hope they do not put Reagan on any coin. I feel he is way overated. Credited with the fall of the USSR when in reality, they fell from 50 years of being outspent and from their own policies in keeping their own people down. Many inovations here were and are basement inventions. ie; personal computers. He was a grade B actor who could sway an audience.

Eisenhower I can see because of WW2. I prefer Franklin.

JMHO

LucyBop · June 18, 2005 1:15AM

Bring back Ben!

MFH · June 18, 2005 1:18AM

dan1ecu · June 18, 2005 1:43AM

Truman died in 1972. Might there have been a Truman Half?

Dan

SanctionII · June 18, 2005 3:15AM

I assume that had JFK not met his demise in Dallas, Franklin halves would have remained through at least 1973 and maybe through the present. That would be fine with me since I love CAMDCAM Proof Frankies and PQ MS Frankies.

JFK would never had made it onto a half dollar since he might still be alive (88 this year).

There would be no JFK Silver Short Set (bummer, since I like this set iin CAMDCAM also).

There would be no Russ in his present 1964 AH, 1967 Birthmark and JFK Silver Short Set incarnation (bummer); instead he would have a different incarnation focusing with his considerable talents on something else (I wonder what that would be? another coin series or Matchbox Cars possibly).

There possibly would be 1964 CAMDCAM AB Proof Frankies (AB meaning Accented Baldness)

There would be 1965-67 SMS CAMDCAM Frankies (YEAH, ALL RIGHT, GROOVEY, THAT'S WACK, AWESOME DUDE).

There would be 40% silver Proof CAMDCAM Frankies for 1968-1970.

There would be Clad Proof and MS Frankies.

There possibly would be Ben Franklin on the obverse of the Bicentennial Halves.

Not related to coins, there would be the balance of JFK's First Term and all of his second term (I assume he would have won reelection in November, 1964) for us to review and critique. I wonder how eight years of JFK would have worked out. I wonder if his personal shortcomings would have been made public. I wonder how different the world and our country would be if he served two terms. Further Dan Rather would not have hit the lottery when he was the first "journalist" to report that JFK had died and may not have ended up as a disgraced anchor for the CBS Evening News.

mgoodm3 · June 18, 2005 3:31AM

Clad frankies.

coinkat · June 18, 2005 5:34AM

TRUMAN

ER · June 18, 2005 6:19AM

Yes

coinkat · June 18, 2005 8:13AM

of course there is always TR...

CalGold · June 18, 2005 8:36AM

Elvis

relayer · June 18, 2005 8:45AM

If Kennedy had not have died, President Johnson wouldn't have escalated the US involvement in Vietnam and the Chinese would have conquered all of Asia, and then would have launched nuclear warheads into Europe and the Americas. After conquering the world, we would all hail Chairman Mao Tse-tung Sun who would be on the fifty-cent piece today.

At least that’s what chaos theory predicts

richbeat · June 18, 2005 8:58AM

I agree with fifth. The hoarding of the Kennedy half when it came out in 1964 helped to kill the half dollar as a circulating coin.

Conder101 · June 18, 2005 3:40PM

When Eisenhower died he would have replaced Ben on the half dollar. The only reason the dollar was revived was because it was politically unfeasable to remove one of the other presidents to put Ike in his place. Without Kenndy on the half it would have been a natural for Ike to have replaced Ben there.

Deadhorse · June 18, 2005 3:55PM

<< <i>I hope they do not put Reagan on any coin. I feel he is way overated. Credited with the fall of the USSR when in reality, they fell from 50 years of being outspent and from their own policies in keeping their own people down. >>

KGB documents and retired high ranking Russian military officials say otherwise.

I think you can expect to see Reagan on US coinage in the not too distant future. I think the dime would be perfect. FDR has had a long run and his legacy is based mostly on revisonist history.

If J.F.K would have stayed out of Texas, would Ben still be on the half dollar. If not, who or what

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