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 ...

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), ...

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 this ...

Years before he became the 35th President of the United States, John F Kennedy showed great courage and leadership as the commander of a patrol boat in WWII. His heroic actions earned him service ...

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 ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

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 ...

Naval experts on Wednesday confirmed wreckage found recently in the South Pacific by noted undersea explorer Robert Ballard must be that of John F. Kennedy’s famed World War II torpedo boat PT 109.

A National Geographic expedition to the South Pacific has found the wreck of PT-109 beneath 1,200 feet of water near the Solomon Islands. PT-109 was under the command of a young John F. Kennedy when ...