(It's a story that's been told before, in books and in the 1963 movie PT 109 that starred Cliff Robertson as Kennedy.) Even before he commits a word of his own to print, Doyle makes a compelling ...

Zinser, the sole surviving member of the crew of PT-109, is suddenly back in the South ... The rest of the story has been well-documented in history books, Hollywood movies, and now in the ...

Ballard, with Michael Hamilton Morgan, has also written a new book, Collision with History: The Search for John F. Kennedy’s PT 109, about the discovery and the history of PT Boats. An ...

The story was told in PT 109, a 1961 book, and a movie of the same title two years later. The boat’s likely remains were found because advances in technology have opened up the deep in recent ...

Zinser was an extra in the 1963 motion picture “PT 109,” which was based on former Times journalist Robert J. Donovan’s book of the same title that related the heroic story.

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 ...

The story was told in "PT 109," a 1961 book, and a movie of the same title two years later. The boat's likely remains were found because advances in technology have opened up the deep in recent ...

Under pressure to gain cooperation from the White House and PT 109 survivors, the studio soon snapped up the rights to the authorized book on which the movie was to be based, Robert Donovan’s ...

It is most likely stupid, and certainly irrelevant, to heap invective upon PT 109, the story of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's war exploits in the South Pacific. But being an invective-heaper from way ...