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 ...

Nov. 10, 2003, 8:20 AM EST / Source: msnbc.com 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 ...

Donovan's PT-109: John Kennedy in World War Two in the context of the still-lingering generational struggle over military service.

Kennedy's World War II patrol boat, PT-109, a panel of naval historians said Wednesday. The National Geographic Society commissioned an expedition in May to search for the wreck, led by Robert ...

Many of us have heard of another patrol boat – PT-109, the boat made famous by the wartime heroics of one John F. Kennedy. But Louison’s boat was named after another famous person. The ship ...

Heading upward on the hit parade is a new record, PT 109, by Cowboy Crooner Jimmy Dean, setting to doggerel the wartime exploits of President Kennedy and sung in the manner of Big Bad John.

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 ...

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 ...