The politically ambitious Kennedy, with designs on a U.S. Kennedy two years later in Washington D.C. Mahanna returned to The Eagle after the war and met up again with the now U.S. When informed by Mahanna of his plight, Kennedy went to the hotel desk and in short order a room for his new friend was found. The men soon discovered they had both Massachusetts and Navy connections and Mahanna realized he was talking to the hero of PT-109, who had rescued crew members after the boat exploded and badly aggravated a back problem in the process. ![]() Mahanna recounts that he went to another hotel where he sat waiting in the lobby for a room cancellation when he was approached by a tall, handsome gentleman carrying a cane who noted Mahanna’s forlorn demeanor and asked if he could help. Assigned following that service to the Office of Naval Intelligence in San Francisco, he went to a hotel where a room had been supposedly reserved for him only to find that the hotel was full. Navy in the South Pacific during World War II. Mahanna had taken a leave from his job as county editor of The Eagle for amphibious duty with the U.S. The senior Mahanna, a native of Lenox and a long-time reporter and editor for The Berkshire Eagle, became a friend and confidante of his fellow Navy veteran JFK through a fortuitous circumstance. ![]() Mahanna, explains that the book is derived from his father’s manuscript found at his mother’s home in Florida. In an introduction, Jonathan Mahanna, the son of the late John G.
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