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….
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John Lowrey
John Lowery was the lieutenant on PT162 who was on patrol with the PT109 the night it was sunk. Part of a four boat formation…
Henry J. Brantingham
Henry J. Brantingham served with Jack in the PT boats on Tulagi. On the night Jack’s boat was sliced open by a Japanese destroyer Brantingham…
Mardi Gras
Jack was in New Orleans to meet up with Frances Ann Cannon for Mardi Gras. Frances had stopped in to visit Jack in Palm Beach…
Jim Farrell
Jim Farrell was an equipment man in the athletics department at Harvard University when Jack played sports there. Farrell gave Jack a football for a…
Don Wilson
Don Wilson was a staffer at the Unites States information Agency. He was instrumental in setting up a correspondents’ center in New York to help…
Arthur Holcombe
Arthur Holcombe was a professor at Harvard who taught a several different government classes that Jack signed up for. Described as “fusty, pompous, long-winded, and…
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…
Victor H. Krulak
Victor H. Krulak (nicknamed “Brute”) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marines. In October, 1943 he led a group of Marines onto Choiseul…
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…