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 ...

Everyone wanted to hear about his experiences with JFK, especially when PT 109, the motion picture starring Cliff Robertson, hit theaters in 1963. Zinser's part was played in the film by William ...

In the film, PT-109 bore the same gray color as contemporary U.S. Navy vessels of the 1960s, in reality, she was given the same dark green paint scheme used by her fellow PT boats in the Western ...

Occasional scenes did penetrate the torpor induced by the first half-hour, surely one of the dullest film segments produced by Hollywood in a long while. But for the most part PT 109 was ...

“We thought they were Japanese and we ran away,” Kumana recalled through a translator in the 2002 National Geographic film “The Search for Kennedy’s PT-109.” He and Gasa paddled off in ...

Andrew Jackson Kirksey, one of two Navy sailors killed in the sinking of PT Boat 109 during World War II ... the year he first watched the film starring Cliff Robertson as a young JFK, the ...

Donovan’s “PT-109: John F. Kennedy in World War II” (1961) and a film adaptation, “PT 109” (1963), which starred Cliff Robertson as Kennedy. “After the war, when Kennedy’s ambitions ...

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‘s PT boat during World ... released “P.T. 109” in 1963 with Cliff Robertson starring as Kennedy. It was the first commercial theatrical film about a president released while he ...