On Nov. 16, Sunday, at 9 p.m. ET, MSNBC and National Geographic EXPLORER present “The Search for Kennedy’s PT 109,” the exclusive behind-the-scenes story of National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence ...
JFK’s heroic actions earned him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, as well as a Purple Heart. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's newly-confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), ...
U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, swam the Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the rescue of her father’s ...
U.S Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy commanded PT-109 in the Solomon Islands during World War II when his boat was struck by a Japanese destroyer on this day in history, Aug. 2, 1943. Kennedy's PT-109, a ...
“I owe it to my skipper to tell about the PT-109. I owe it to his memory.” It was in 1983 when I first met Patrick McMahon, whom John F. Kennedy had rescued on the PT-109 during World War II. He was a ...
Naval experts on Wednesday confirmed wreckage found recently in the South Pacific by noted undersea explorer Robert Ballard must be that of John F. Kennedy’s famed World War II torpedo boat PT 109.