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John Kennedy Sterling Mint Julep Cup by Wakefield-Scearce Galleries c1960 Company History & Context This heavy, vintage hand-crafted sterling mint julep cup was created during the Kennedy administration by Wakefield-Scearce Galleries located in Shelbyville , Kentucky . This Mint Julep cup was fashioned after an original Kentucky mint Julep cup created about the year 1795. This fantastic piece is traditional in every detail; size, proportion, even the hand beading. Each Wakefield-Scearce Julep cup is marked at the time it is made with the initials of the residing President of The United States -- which dates the piece for prosperity. Item Description Mint condition (no pun intended) Never monogrammed, no repairs or damage of any kind The Kennedy piece is the most sought after Mint Julep cup of all the Presidential Wakefield-Scearce julep cups Fantastic traditional rim beading & design, beautifully hand fashioned, museum quality This vintage julep cup was created when Kennedy was in office Comes with itÂ's original felt draw-string bag and description card Never used, light tarnish Stamped with all appropriate maker's marks A well developed, soft, silky, buttery-smooth, creamy silver patina assumed from years of proper care, storage & gentle hand-polishing A very sturdy, hefty-gauge sterling silverQuality lives when price is forgotten! John Fitzgerald Kennedy On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas , Texas . Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline , Massachusetts , on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety. Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage , which won the Pulitzer Prize in In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Millions watched his television debates with the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President. His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II; before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty. Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society. He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained. Shortly after his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and trained, to invade their homeland. The attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro was a failure. Soon tafter, the Soviet Union renewed its campaign against West Berlin . Kennedy replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation's military strength, including new efforts in outer space. Confronted by this reaction, Moscow , after the erec...
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