More than half a century after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the world remains endlessly fascinated by both the man and his presidency. But author William Doyle isn’t wading into the usual ...

On a moonless night in the summer of 1943, a Japanese destroyer tore through a U.S. Navy patrol-torpedo boat guarding the waters around the Solomon Islands. The boat was PT-109, skippered by a young ...

Discovering the sunken remains of PT-109 is like finding the rusted shaft of King Arthur's sword. Like the mythical king who gained his throne by pulling the sword from a stone, John F. Kennedy's ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Eroni Kumana, a Solomon Islander who was credited with helping to save the lives of then-Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy and his PT-109 crew members after their boat was destroyed by a Japanese warship ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — President John F. Kennedy had just one critique when he saw photos of the actor set to play him in a World War II drama. The year was 1963 and actor Cliff Robertson looked ...

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 ...

An analysis by Navy experts appears to confirm oceanographer Robert Ballard’s contention that he has discovered a section of John F. Kennedy’s PT 109. A team of experts from the Department of the Navy ...

In the 50 years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an entire genre of movies and miniseries has emerged about the Camelot years. But scant months before Kennedy’s death, Warner Bros. released ...

It was a coconut that sent William F. Liebenow on a mission to rescue the man who would become president. A tenacious Navy officer in World War II, Liebenow’s acts of heroism stretched from the waters ...