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…
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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…
September 5, 1961
JFK, grappling with an increasingly bellicose Soviet Union in the Berlin crisis, nevertheless is steadfast that the way forward is through negotiations, telling Secretary of…
Colonel Johns
As the tension mounted over the construction of the Berlin wall, JFK remained in Washington instead of making his customary summer Friday trip to Hyannis…
C54
JFK started the day in Paris and left with Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal in a C54 plane for Berlin. Leaving at 3 pm,…
Germany
JFK was in Berlin and wrote to his pal Lem Billlings about his travels through Germany and thoughts about his upcoming return to the States,…