5c John F. Kennedy single

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Object Details

Printer

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Depicts

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, American, 1917 - 1963

Description

This Kennedy Memorial Issue stamp honors John F. Kennedy, the thirty-sixth President of the United States. He was born in Massachusetts in 1917. He served during the Second World War as the commander of a PT boat in the Pacific Theater. In 1946, he was elected to the United State House of Representatives and later, the United States Senate in 1952. He won the nomination for president, and narrowly the election against Richard Nixon, in 1960. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald during a motorcade procession in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The stamp features a portrait of Kennedy and an image of the Eternal Flame, located at his gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.

United States; Massachusetts; John F. Kennedy; House of Representatives; Senate; President; Second World War; Bay of Pigs; Profiles in Courage; Pulitzer Prize; author; politician; assassination; Lee Harvey Oswald; portrait

Date

May 29, 1964

Object number

1980.2493.5478

Type

Postage Stamps

Medium

paper; ink (blue gray); adhesive / engraving

Place

United States of America

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Data Source

National Postal Museum

Topic

Humanitarian Causes

Political Figures

U.S. Stamps

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm806e2de8d-a4c9-4d72-b090-abcf4ca6ff2e

Record ID

npm_1980.2493.5478