Pam Farrington
JFK dated Pam Farrington, a looker who modeled for Filenes, when he was in Boston during his early years in Congress. Although none of Jack’s…
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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….
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….
Buck
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…
Arkady Gerney
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…
David Ormsby Gore
David Ormsby Gore was the British Ambassador to the United States and a highly respected unofficial advisor to JFK.
277 Park Avenue
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’…
Hersey
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…
Stopover
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
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…
Cribbage
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…
Plantation House
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…
Russells
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…
Homecoming
JFK attended the Homecoming celebration in Salem, Massachusetts. [58]
Kay Halle
Kay Halle (1904 to 1997) was a long-time Washington, D.C. socialite, radio broadcaster, and writer who met JFK in 1932. She was an heiress of the…
Lennie Thom
Lennie Thom was the executive officer of PT 109 when it was sunk the Japanese troop transport ship the Amagiri. Before his service in the…
Tennessee
December, 1953 – JFK visited Chattanooga, Tennessee in the company of his good friend Charles Bartlett, a journalist for the Chattanooga Times. Kennedy joked during…
Indiana
Gary – JFK was in Gary, Indiana for a full day of campaigning on February 4, 1960. [56]
Jacques Lowe
Jacques Lowe was German photographer who was a favored Kennedy family lensman. A political refugee, Lowe had been hired in 1958 by Bobby Kennedy to…
Hyannis Port
Hyannis Port was the town that came to be synonymous with the Kennedy family. In the spring of 1926, Patriarch Joe Kennedy first rented what…