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JFK and Military Service: The Rescue
On a starless night in August 1943, a Japanese destroyer split Kennedy's PT-109 boat in half. The crew had been left for dead, but the future president felt it was his duty to get his men to safety -- and he was going to spare no effort to do so.
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Follow LBJ from rural Texas to his ascendancy to the presidency after the assassination of JFK.
