When John F. Kennedy learned he was talking to a man who was on the PT 162 that night, he briefly stepped out of his supremely cool, confident, and poised image and revealed a glimpse of how, for all the value the PT 109 episode provided him as a candidate for the nation’s highest office, the ordeal in the Blackett Strait still haunted him somewhere within. “Where in the hell did you guys go?” Kennedy snapped. It was all he had to say to Ogilvie.
