William C. Battle
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….
The Life of John F. Kennedy
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…
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…
JFK was out on patrol in bad weather hanging off the coast of Choiseul Island hunting Japanese barges. As on most of the patrols the…
JFK was not assigned a mission and PT 59 remained in drydock again. [153, p. 328]
JFK took his newly fitted PT 59 out for a second trial on the open water off Savo Island. [153, p. 328]
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…
277 Park Avenue was a Kennedy family apartment that Jack used occasionally while he was in New York. The building was not known for its’…
JFK appointed Orville Freeman as Secretary of Agriculture, although he was not the initial frontrunner for the job. After JFK soured on Missouri farm union…
JFK was interviewed by John Hersey about his experiences in the PT109 wreck for an article that was to be written for Life Magazine.JFK was in…
JFK was in Great Falls, Montana greeting the locals in the high school football stadium when a young Luke Flaherty reached through the crowd to…
JFK flew from his family’s home in Palm Beach for a stopover in New York City to return to duty at his new posting in…
William Liebenow, Jr. was a tent mate of JFK in the Solomon Islands and a fellow PT boat commander on the fateful night that Kennedy’s…
JFK spent some of this free time while in the Solomons playing cribbage. His PT109 crew scrounged scrap plywood and fashioned sets for them to…
After his posting to the Russell islands for the New Georgia campaign in May, 1943, Kennedy moved off the PT 109 and lived in a…
JFK shipped out PT109 and his crew from Tulagi bound for the Russells islands to New Georgia in the Solomons at dawn. The target for…