No president is on a 1961 half dollar. It depicts Benjamin Franklin who was a Founding Father, statesman, diplomat, inventor, writer, and philosopher ... but never president.
President John F. Kennedy
Since 1964, the U.S. half dollar has featured President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.
The 35th President of the US, John F. Kennedy, is on the half dollar coin
President John F. Kennedy has been featured on the U.S. half dollar since 1964, including 2007.
Franklin half dollar and an Indian head penny.
Franklin Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, is on the dime. Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States, is on the nickel. John Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, is on the half dollar.
President Kennedy, on the half dollar. From 1965 to 1969 the half dollars were struck in 40% silver and are the last circulating US coins to have any silver in them.
The current half-dollars feature President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the obverse. The previous ones have Benjamin Franklin. Before that, they were allegorical figures of "Lady Liberty."Since 1964, the U.S. half dollar has featured President John F. Kennedy.
No president was ever depicted on a true silver dollar. They all carried a picture of Miss Liberty. Newer $1 coins aren't silver. The copper-nickel ones minted from 1971 to 1978 carried a picture of Dwight Eisenhower, and the current Presidential series of "golden" brass dollars will depict every president except those who are still living at the time the series ends.
John F. Kennedy has appeared on the US half dollar since 1964. From 1948 to 1963 the coin carried a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Before that it had various images of Miss Liberty.
There is no silver in a 1972 US half dollar.
That was the first year John F. Kennedy was on the half dollar.