Something smells fishy here. 1945? Germany was pretty much in ruins. And did not JFK get his PT boat sunk (due to his normal Kennedy incompetence) in the Pacific somewhere around that time?
Ergo me thinketh not that JFK was in German in ‘45. Could be wrong.
So this isn’t really JFK’s diary?
Not saying it’s not a possibility, but how likely?
“Something smells fishy here. 1945? Germany was pretty much in ruins. And did not JFK get his PT boat sunk (due to his normal Kennedy incompetence) in the Pacific somewhere around that time? Ergo me thinketh not that JFK was in German in ‘45. Could be wrong.”
You ‘could be wrong’.
Yep, you could be wrong.
In August 1943, as the sailors were sleeping without posting a watch (in violation of naval regulations), his boat, PT 109, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Towing a badly burned crewmate by a life-jacket strap clenched in his teeth, Kennedy led the crew's ten survivors on a three-mile swim to refuge on a tiny island. The crew hid on the island from the enemy for days until Kennedy managed to summon help. Widely credited with the rescue of his crew, Kennedy received the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Medal for Valor, and a Purple Heart for injuries he sustained. Nevertheless, he returned home to a naval inquiry on the sinking. Although a board found evidence of poor seamanship, the Navy needed heroes more than it needed scapegoats, and Kennedy was cast as the former to build public morale, and recruited to go on speaking tours.
After being discharged from the Navy, John Kennedy worked briefly as a reporter for the Hearst newspapers, and in 1946, the twenty-nine-year-old Kennedy won election to the U.S. Congress representing a working-class Boston district. He served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, earning a reputation as a somewhat conservative Democrat. He was re-elected in 1948 and again in 1950. In 1952, he ran for the U.S. Senate and defeated the Republican incumbent from another Massachusetts family with a long political history, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
JFK briefly worked as a reporter for the Hearst Press in 1945, after leaving the Navy on medical discharge. His father had Hearst connections and got him the job. He was in Germany for the Potsdam Conference.
I had to look it up. It seems daddy managed to grease some palm, and Jack was off to Europe.
Why is it that these democrats always seem to admire the characters of the most evil people going. Note their fondness for enemy islamists. One of them is even vice-chair of their party.
I’ve been on a patrol boat on pitch black night patrols and it would be easier than you think to get hit by a much bigger ship. I don’t fault him for that. And he showed great courage in swimming out with a lamp at night. For all his faults he wasn’t a coward like the entire RAT leadership is today. He would spit on them.
That's common sense. No disrespect to his war record, but he wasn't simply a common sailor. Have to think like an elitist. In August 45 my Dad was stationed in the states, my Mom was in the Phillipines, and JFK was touring Germany in the company of Secretary of the Navy Forrestal. Where would you rather be? My favorite quote from the diary, prewar, The Nordic races certainly seem to be superior to the Romans.
Wiki Post-naval service
In April 1945, Kennedy’s father, who was a friend of William Randolph Hearst, arranged a position for his son as a special correspondent for Hearst Newspapers; the assignment kept Kennedy’s name in the public eye and “expose[d] him to journalism as a possible career.”[54] He worked as a correspondent that May, covering the Potsdam Conference and other events.[55]
Yup, you’re wrong. btw, It’s easier to “Google” than to write an incorrect comment.