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noblynx

11/16/21 4:51 PM

#84080 RE: pitcook #84077

As my Dad approached JFK's crew on a destroyer-escort, he scanned them - trying to pick out which one would be JFK. My Dad was quite the physical specimen, and after those stories he and everyone else had heard of JFK-the-hero, Dad had imagined JFK also being some big, strong guy. So he picked out some fellow who he said looked a lot like George Kennedy, the movie actor, and told himself, "That's gotta be him."

What a shock when it turned out the scrawniest guy in the group with that twangy Massachusetts accent turned out to be him! Dad chuckled every time he told the story to us kids.