Roger Hilsman
Roger Hilsman was an assistant secretary of state in the Kennedy administration. JFK had a running dialogue with Hilsman about the need to create a…
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Thomas M. Rees
Thomas M. Rees was an aide and advisor to JFK during his campaign for the Presidency. Rees was a lawyer born and educated in California….
Holton Wood
H. Holton “Holty” Wood was a schoolmate of Jack’s from boyhood. They attended Harvard, Dexter, and Noble and Greenough together. At Harvard, both were accepted…
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…
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…
Charles Albert Harris
Charles Harris, aged 25, joined the PT 109 crew the day that Kennedy assumed command. [Blair, p. ??]
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…
Associated
Jack was in Palm Beach with his father when Joe, Sr. sent a telegram to Rose informing her that the Associated Press had named her…
Mr. Tinker
Mr. Tinker was an English teacher at Choate and had Jack for his English V class. [253, p. 132]
McGeorge Bundy
McGeorge Bundy was named in 1961 by Kennedy to be National Security Advisor. After JFK’s death, he continued on as LBJ’s National Security Advisor unitl…
Harlan Cleveland
Harlan Cleveland was appointed as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations by Kennedy in 1961. Cleveland was a Princeton graduate and Rhodes Scholar who…
Archibald Cox
Archibold Cox was named as Solicitor General by JFK. JFK had first come into contact with Cox in 1953 when he was looking to develop…
Fowler Hamilton
Fowler Hamilton was a New York attorney who was named by Kennedy to head the Foreign Aid Agency. [152, p. 101]