PT-109

Certainly not from reading PT-109 when I was a kid.

Where we won the War we started by almost losing it 2010

Correction: This post originally included an anecdote about how John Kennedy and his crew were on a mission to fight boredom when PT-109 was rammed and sunk.

Where we won the War we started by almost losing it 2010

The year was 1963 and actor Cliff Robertson looked convincing in his costume for "PT-109," the first film to portray a sitting president.

Cliff Robertson Dies: Oscar Winner Was 88 The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Besides his Oscar-winning role in Charly — which was adapted from Daniel Keyes' short novel, Flowers for Algernon, and told the story of a mentally disabled man who becomes a genius after medical treatment — Robertson is also remembered for playing President John F. Kennedy in 1963's PT-109.

Oscar-Winning Actor Cliff Robertson Dies at 88 2011

The operation that resulted in the loss of the PT-109 was ill-conceived but JFK appeared to have done about as well as he could and was certainly the victim of bad luck.

Where we won the War we started by almost losing it 2010

NEW YORK -- Cliff Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in "PT-109," won an Oscar for "Charly" and was famously victimized in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, has died.

Oscar Winner Cliff Robertson Dies at 88 Associated Press 2011

Wherever did you get the idea that PT-109 was in the Blackett Strait so that the crew could drink?

Where we won the War we started by almost losing it 2010

Robinson was aboard a vessle that picked up Kennedy and 10 surviving crew members after their PT-109 was rammed by a Japanese destroyer in 1943.

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Itwould be Dean's biggest hit, though he followed it with the recitation Dear Ivan, addressed to another "plain, ordinary human being" in the USSR, and the song PT-109, based on John F Kennedy's experiences during the second world war.

Jimmy Dean obituary 2010

Kennedy, however, had proved his intestinal fortitude during World War II with PT-109.

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