(1963) Medal Kennedy Assassination Texas School Book Depository

Coin Details

Description

This medal from 1963 commemorates the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, specifically referencing the Texas School Book Depository — the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that killed the President on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The Texas School Book Depository, a seven-story warehouse on Dealey Plaza, became one of the most infamous buildings in American history after the assassination. Oswald was a Book Depository employee who fired from a sixth-floor window overlooking the presidential motorcade route. Medals referencing the specific assassination site rather than the more common memorial portrait style are unusual within the vast Kennedy medallic output. This piece documents the immediate aftermath of the assassination, when the details of the event — the location, the weapon, the route — were being absorbed into the national consciousness. The Texas School Book Depository was later converted to the Sixth Floor Museum, which preserves the history of the assassination.

Rarity Notes

Scarce. Kennedy assassination medals referencing the Texas School Book Depository specifically are uncommon compared to standard memorial portraits.

Cross References

PCGS #974194; Kennedy Assassination 1963; Texas School Book Depository; Dallas