Blair Clark
Blair Clark was a member of Spee Club and considered to be a top man around the Harvard campus, in part because he was editor…
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5040 Independence Avenue
JFK moved with his family to the rented, 20 room, stucco mansion at 5040 Independence Ave in the Riverdale section of the Bronx in 1927….
Henry A. Yeomans
Henry A. Yeomans was JFK’s thesis advisor at Harvard. Jack received magna cum laud honors on the project. Yeomans was to write that the book…
Sun
Clad in chinos, a white polo shirt, and white boat shoes JFK spent part of the day getting some sun while sailing on the Honey…
Claude Hooten
Claude Hooten was a JFK Harvard classmate who volunteered to help out in the West Virginia primary [300, p. 104]
Bill Battle
Bill Battle was the son of a governor of Virginia and a Navy colleague of JFK. He volunteered for Kennedy’s primary contest in West Virginia…
Majorie Lawson
Marjorie Lawson was an attorney from the District of Columbia who was one of the original unofficial aides for the JFK run for the Presidency….
Godfrey Kauffman
Godfrey Kauffman was JFK’s roommate at Choate House. [1, p. 31]
Charlotte Canfield
Charlotte Canfield was employed as a nurse to JFK when he was six years old.
1528 Thirty First Street, NW
JFK lived at 1528 Thirty First Street, NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C. while starting in the House of Representatives in 1949. He…
George Ross
George Ross survived the PT 109 sinking and was later named by JFK to a position on the President’s Committee on Juvenile Deliquency and Youth…
Joe Healey
Joe Healey was an attorney and one of JFK’s Boston allies. He contributed heavily to a report that was officially authored by Kennedy that gave…
Gerald Zinser
Gerald Zinser was a crewman on PT 109 and survived the six day ordeal after the Japanese destroyer cut the boat in half. After the…
John Maguire
John Maguire served as crewman under JFK on PT 109. As president, Kennedy appointed him United States Marshall for the southern district of Florida. [127,…
Maurice Kowal
Maurice Kowal served under Kennedy as a crewman on the PT 109, although he had left the boat before it was rammed by the Japanese…
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…
Charles J. Kersten
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…
Kay Stammers
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…
Gerard Emil Zinser
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…
Raymond L. Starkey
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….