John F Kennedy’s actions as commander of PT-109 were a formative chapter in his life that shaped his values and leadership. The courage, resilience, and sense of duty he demonstrated in the ...

He recalled how JFK “had confidence in his men; his crew loved him. He would do anything for anyone.” Shortly past midnight on Aug. 2, 1943, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri rammed the PT-109 ...

Kennedy commanded PT-109 in the Solomon Islands during World ... provided a strong foundation for his appeal as a leader," the JFK Presidential Library and Museum states in its account of the ...

Kennedy and keeps a jungle shrine to JFK. Kennedy, an environmental studies professor at Boston College, asks Dick Keresey, who commanded PT-105 in the same squadron, why the PT-109 was so quickly ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. As the commander of the U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat PT 109, Doyle reasons, the 26-year-old JFK was forever transformed over the course of a seven-day ...

Cull, who authored an essay on the making of “PT 109” for “Hollywood and the American Historical Film” (2012, Palgrave Macmillan). JFK chose Robertson, even though the actor was just six ...

John F. Kennedy, with cane in the Pacific, 1943, would later downplay his PT-109 role: "It was involuntary," he quipped. "They sank my boat." Ted Robinson John F. Kennedy—elected 50 years ago ...

Kennedy, at the time a naval lieutenant, commanded one of the PT boats made in Bayonne, PT-109. The story of his heroism and leadership after the boat was sunk by a Japanese destroyer Aug. 1 ...

The wartime ordeal of PT-109, a patrol torpedo boat, added to his reputation as a leader as he vied against Richard Nixon for the White House. “Eighty years ago, President Kennedy swum between ...