WASHINGTON (CNN) --The wreckage of a navy vessel found off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific is probably John F. Kennedy's World War II patrol boat, PT-109, a panel of naval historians said ...
An analysis by Navy experts appears to confirm oceanographer Robert Ballard’s contention that he has discovered a section of John F. Kennedy’s PT 109. A team of experts from the Department of the Navy ...
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 ...
Dr. Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic, the Bismarck, and dozens of other lost ships, on Wednesday announced his latest find: PT 109, John F. Kennedy’s wartime boat, which a Japanese destroyer ...
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), ...
“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 ...
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 ...
More than half a century after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the world remains endlessly fascinated by both the man and his presidency. But author William Doyle isn’t wading into the usual ...
As a World War II warship, PT-109 was not destined to be much remembered. It was sunk ingloriously in a misbegotten South Pacific mission in which nothing went right and nary a blow was struck at the ...