March 1, 1945
JFK is officially retired from the United States Navy. [3,103]
The Life of John F. Kennedy
JFK is officially retired from the United States Navy. [3,103]
JFK wrote to his friend Lemoyne Billings. In the months after his discharge from the Navy, Kennedy struggled to find a direction and focus for…
JFK appeared in front of the Naval Retiring Board in Washington, D.C. where he was officially released from the Navy. [1,124]
JFK gives a speech to approximately 1000 people assembled at department store Jordan Marsh for the Lincoln’s birthday bond rally. Kennedy cautions the crowd that…
November 2, 1943 JFK skippered PT-59 as part of an operation to help evacuate Marines who were trapped on the island of Choiseul. Kennedy picked…
JFK (who was a prolific letter-writer while in the Solomons) pens a missive to his parents. It was excerpted by one biographer as follows: …what…
JFK wrote a letter to his lifelong friend Lemoyne Billings. He described a sobering incident that occurred to him during the first day of his…
JFk is aboard a troop transport ship (the converted French passenger liner Rochambeau) when he reaches the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, where he…
In a letter to his friend Lem Billings, JFK somewhat somberly reports the casualty news friends that he has heard, “Your friend Jock Pitney I…
JFK is in the third day of taking four training PT boats from Melville to Jacksonville, Florida. He was attempting to pull one of the…
JFK departs Melville in command of three PT boats. To avoid the icy Atlantic, they enter the intracoastal waterway for the trip to Jacksonville, Florida….
JFK graduates from midshipmen school in Chicago. He learns at this time that he will not be assigned to an overseas post because he is…
A photograph of PT boat skippers including JFK is published in the Chicago Sun newspaper. The clipping was later sent to Kennedy by his close…
Having previously received his orders, JFK reported to midshipmen’s school at Abbott Hall on the downtown campus of Northwestern University. Kennedy both lived and attended…
JFK leaves Charleston, South Carolina and flies to Washington, D. C., in the afternoon where he spends one night with Inga Arvad and with the…
JFK and Lem Billings played touch football in a pickup game they joined on the Mall close to the Washington Monument. News of the bombing…
JFK is in Hyannis Port waiting to hear about a possible posting by the Navy. He wrote a letter to his friend Cam Newberry reporting…
JFK completed his entrance interview for the Naval Intelligence Unit in Boston. He was interviewed by Lieutenant Carl Sternfelt and Lieutenant Commander J.A. Johnson. One…
JFK writes to his friend Cam Newberry from Hyannis Port. Newberry had joined the military and Kennedy directed some good natured jibes his friend’s way….
Jack, Eunice, and Rose attend a dinner at the Brazilian Embassy at the invitation of Ambassador Jefferson Caffery.