Joe Garrety
Joe Garrety was a friend of Jack’s and met up with him in Berlin during his stay visit there with Lem right before the outbreak…
Alex Pourtalis
Alex Pourtalis was a Harvard chum of Jack’s. Alex and another Harvard student were also touring Europe right before the war and found themselves in…
Chester Hanford
A. Chester Hanford was Dean of Harvard College from 1927-1947. He approved Jack’s request to spend the second half of his junior year on leave…
Charles Harris
Charles Harris was a Gunner’s Mate on PT 109, who survived the sinking when the boat was cut in two by a Japanese destroyer. He…
Victor H. Krulak
Victor H. Krulak (nicknamed “Brute”) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marines. In October, 1943 he led a group of Marines onto Choiseul…
William C. Specht
William C. Specht was the commander at the PT training school in Melville, Rhode Island when Jack was transferred to learn PT boat seamanship from…
Joe Kernell
Joe Kernell was a PT officer in the Solomons that Jack turned to for advice and guidance as he assumed command of PT 109.
Buick convertible
Frequent date Flip Price remember Jack as driving a Buick convertible during his three months in Palo Alto in the fall of 1940. [Blair, p…..
L’Omelette
L’Omelette was a local Palo Alto restaurant that JFK often took Flip Price and other dates to. during his three months on the campus of…
Dinah’s Shack
Dinah’s Shack was a popular restaurant in Palo Alto that Jack took his dates, including Flip Price to for a meal. It originally opened in…
Harriet “Flip” Price
Harriet “Flip” Price was a steady date of Jack’s during his three months auditing classes at Stanford in the fall of 1940. Flip was slim, …
Alvin Peyton Cluster
Alvin Peyton Cluster was the young commander of Squadron Two and was Kennedt’s superior for much of his stay in the Solomons. A graduate of…
Edmund T. Drewitch
Edmund T. Drewitch, age 30, was the sixth man on the crew for PT 109 that Kennedy was assembling. He joined the crew on the…
Leon E. Drawdy
Leon E. Drawdy, age 30, was one of Kennedy’s original crew on PT 109, joining the boat the day that Jack assumed command. [Blair, p….
Charles Albert Harris
Charles Harris, aged 25, joined the PT 109 crew the day that Kennedy assumed command. [Blair, p. ??]
Andrew Kirksey
Torpedoman Second Class Andrew Jackson Kirksey joined the PT 109 crew. He often shared pictures and told stories about his son and stepson to JFK, who…
David Levy
David Levy commanded PT 59 alongside JFK in the Solomons. After the war, he worked as an attorney in Rochester, New York. Levy was following…
Chile
JFK travelled to Chile on his spring, 1941 trip to South America with his sister and mother. After spending his 24th birthday in Argentina as…
Emma Tavolieri
Emma was one of the group of young women who banded together to support JFK’s 1st run for Congress in 1946. Born in 1920 in…
Mr. Tinker
Mr. Tinker was an English teacher at Choate and had Jack for his English V class. [253, p. 132]