John Klee
John Klee served under JFK in the south Pacific for about a week on PT 59. He told another biographer: He got along well with…
The Life of John F. Kennedy
John Klee served under JFK in the south Pacific for about a week on PT 59. He told another biographer: He got along well with…
Charles J. Kersten became a friend and close associate of Jack’s in the spring of 1947. He entered Congress in the same class as JFK…
JFK served under Clark Faulkner at the PT shakedown unit in Miami that Jack was assigned to in the winter and spring of 1944. He…
Kay Stammers was a British tennis star who saw Jack on and off in the 1940s in both the UK and the US. She recalled…
JFK dated Pam Farrington, a looker who modeled for Filenes, when he was in Boston during his early years in Congress. Although none of Jack’s…
Gerard Emil Zinser worked as a motor machinist mate on PT 109. As many Illinois boys had done before him, he joined the Navy in…
Torpedoman Second Class Raymond L. Starkey served under JFK on PT 109 and was on the boat when it was struck by the Japanese destroyer….
William C. Battle was a tent mate of JFK on Tulagi and fellow commanding officer of a PT boat. In 1962, JFK appointed him U.S….
JFK and his friend Joseph Patrick Lannan moved to the Camelback Inn after a short, unsatisfactory sojourn at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix during his…
Savo was a dog that JFK had while he was stationed in the later part of his service in the Solomons. One of the Navy…
Angela Greene was an object of JFK’s interest in the summer and fall of 1942 while Jack was in PT school at Melville, Rhode Island….
Shannon was an Irish cocker spaniel given to the Kennedys by the Prime Minister of Ireland Eamon de Valera in late summer 1963. After JFK’s…
JFK built an enclosure for a tame deer buck at Atoka, the Kennedy retreat in Virginia. It was intended to be a pet for Caroline…
Bab Beckwith with a New York model who dated JFK when he was stationed in Miami in early 1944. She was not his only date…
John Iles, Jr. skippered PT 105 and shared a bunk with JFK in Tulagi. Born and raised in Louisiana, Johnny boxed and played football in…
John B. White ran in the same social crowd in 1942 Washington D.C populated by Jack and Kick Kennedy.
JFK lived part-time at 91st and Harding Avenue in Miami Beach when he was stationed at the PT shakedown unit in Miami in the spring…
George Mead was a friend of both JFK and Kick. Mead’s family had a summer place on Great Island in Hyannis. His father (also George…
Arkady Gerney was an old friend of both JFK and Jackie, having known both since their college days. He came from well-to-do Swiss American family…
David Ormsby Gore was the British Ambassador to the United States and a highly respected unofficial advisor to JFK.