Kennedy's PT Boat Found in Pacific

AP | 5/29/02

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Ballard's next underwater expedition is to search for Teddy Kennedy's S.S. Oldsmobile.

[leadpenny]

The Kennedy machine at work. Anything to take the heat off the Skakel trial.

[laredo44]

It's amazing this small vessel has been found. Ballard is quite remarkable.

Kennedy and 10 other survivors swam 15 hours to reach a nearby island. He towed one injured survivor, engineer Patrick Henry McMahon, by swimming with a strap from McMahon's lifejacket in his teeth.

How ironic that swimming someone to safety may have brought Jack the presidency, and the lack of doing the same may have cost Teddy it.

[johnny7]

That driver was embedded too deep for a probe.

Maybe with future technology we can find an answer.

[awelliott]

Ballard's next underwater expedition is to search for Teddy Kennedy's S.S. Oldsmobile.

8^D

[M.K. Borders]

Maybe Ballard's study of the wreck can shed light on the details of the sinking. A PT boat was, and is one of the most maneuverable and agile boats on the water. So how did JFK manage to get rammed? .

Take notice how this article was written, "The PT 109 sank in August 1943 after it was hit by a Japanese warship." . This reads like the boat sank as a result of battle. Whereas the word "rammed" suggests incompetence.

[wasp69]

So how did JFK manage to get rammed?

You know, I have often wondered how one could get a very light, very fast, and extremely manueverable craft athwartships a destroyer. Unless the engines were out, I would have to say it is incompetence.

[sheik yerbouty]

Yes, Whoraldo can broadcast from Martha's Vineyard or hyenasport when the land yacht comes ashore!

[gortklattu]

But he [Ballard] added searching for the vessel in an area full of unexploded ordnance would be "no fun."

What, to a Kennedy, is "unexploded ordinance?"

[leprechaun9]

What a great find? How long will it be before a commission is formed to erect a monument (using this remarkable find)on the mall in Washington. After all, it would only be fair to the Kennedy dynasty!

[Samwise]

If Ted Kennedy had driven a Volkswagaon, he'd be former President Kennedy today.

[MadelineZapeezda]

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, and daughter, Caroline Kennedy, agreed to the expedition after being assured that the site would not be disturbed

Who are they to make this determination????????something to hide???

[waterstraat]

Maybe Ballard's study of the wreck can shed light on the details of the sinking. A PT boat was, and is one of the most maneuverable and agile boats on the water. So how did JFK manage to get rammed? . Take notice how this article was written, "The PT 109 sank in August 1943 after it was hit by a Japanese warship." . This reads like the boat sank as a result of battle. Whereas the word "rammed" suggests incompetence.

Exactly!

[Lee'sGhost]

"Whereas the word "rammed" suggests incompetence. "

Yeah, I'm really torn by this. I find it hard to believe that JFK swam for 15 hours towing another guy by his teeth. At the same time, he WAS actually participating in the war effort and the men with him certainly deserve to be remembered for their contributions. I would love to know the facts behind all this.

[Vermont Lt]

You would think that the families of the two that DIED would have something to say....its their graves.

Who gives a rats a$$ about what the Kennedy's think about this?

[Octavius]

Oh for the days when rich folks also served in the military.

[Destructor]

Oh, swell. Just what we need. Another Kennedy shrine.

[Wolfie]

What, to a Kennedy, is "unexploded ordinance?"

The women who haven't came forward. "Disarmed ordinance" would be the ones who never got the chance.

[ken5050]

FYI..if a PT boat was surprised by a Jap destroyer, as often happened as neither rarely had radar, the PT boat was highly vulnerable to the Jap's guns. PT boat skippers often found it safer to CLOSE the Jap ships,because the Jap guns could not depress the elevation enough to hit the PT boats when they were in close..the shells went right over them...