Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, under the command of Lieutenant junior grade John F. Kennnedy, was one of 15 PT boats sent out on a mission to intercept the Tokyo Express on the night of August 1, 1943. Along with three other boats of the flotilla, it stayed behind to guard the retreat of the...
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1943 – The Japanese destroyer Amagiri rams and sinks US Navy PT-109
1961 – John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th President of the USA
John F. Kennedy’s Innaugration oath was administed by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren with all the due pomp and ceremony. Kennedy’s speech that day was unusually short for an Innaugral Address, but it is generally considered to be one of the better innaugral addresses. Such well known Kennedy quotations as “ask...
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1963 – U.S. President John F Kennedy is assassinated
One of the defining events of its era, the assassination of President Kennedy remains a remarkably controversial one, even today. Conspiracy theories abound as to who shot Kennedy and why. While the official story, that Lee Harvey Oswald did it, with the rifle, in the book depository, is plausible, it is also notably incomplete...
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