MSNBC and National Geographic EXPLORER present “The Search for Kennedy’s PT 109,” the exclusive behind-the-scenes story of Dr. Robert Ballard’s quest to find John F. Kennedy’s PT 109 in ...

Many of us have heard of another patrol boat – PT-109, the boat made famous by the wartime heroics of one John F. Kennedy. But Louison’s boat was named after another famous person.

WASHINGTON (CNN) --The wreckage of a navy vessel found off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific is probably John F. Kennedy's World War II patrol boat, PT-109, a panel of naval historians said ...

The PT 109 crew was rescued six days later by another U.S. vessel. The incident was viewed as an example of heroism and was invoked repeatedly during Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign.

PT-109 was under the command of a young John F. Kennedy when it was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in August 1943. The expedition was led by underwater explorer Robert Ballard.

Kennedy, an environmental studies professor at Boston College, asks Dick Keresey, who commanded PT-105 in the same squadron, why the PT-109 was so quickly forgotten and its crew presumed dead.

The PT 109 site might eventually be part of Ballard’s planned network of underwater museums, which would be accessible by remote control cameras over an improved generation of the Internet.

William Doyle, author of ‘PT 109,’ talks about John F. Kennedy’s stunning encounter with disaster as a young naval officer.

NPR Senior News Analyst Dan Schorr looks at a newly published edition of Robert J. Donovan's PT-109: John Kennedy in World War Two in the context of the still-lingering generational struggle over ...