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 ...
Andrew Jackson Kirksey, one of two Navy sailors killed in the sinking of PT Boat 109 during World War II, will be honored with a memorial ceremony on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 2 p.m., at the Massachusetts ...
“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 ...
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), ...
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 ...
The yellow crane angled toward Newark Bay is perhaps not the typical structure placed in a park to commemorate a moment in history. But there is little need for statues and monuments when an artifact ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
On a moonless night in the summer of 1943, a Japanese destroyer tore through a U.S. Navy patrol-torpedo boat guarding the waters around the Solomon Islands. The boat was PT-109, skippered by a young ...