kENNEDY WAS WITHDRAWING ALL ADVISORS FROM VIETNAM AND WOULD HAVE HAD ALL HOME BY HIS ELECTION IN 1964.The first thousand withdrawn landed here in the US the day he was assassinated. Three days later the Pentagon issued a notice saying that a mistake had been made and that the decisin now was to send up to 250,000 trrops over there. It escalated from that point when Kennedy had been taken out. And most late declassified files lead that the CIA and some high generals planned his assassination!
My most favourite song ever, since I was a kid. :)
Me and my friend were driving around the other day I was jammin' to this song, and she says "So whats the PT 109?" After explaining it to her she says, "And that JFK guy.. why is he SOO important?" THEN after, judging her immensly and explaining him, shes like "So he owns a boat?" Thats when I gave up. Some people...
I have to disagree with almost all of your comments, JFK would indeed have had the war with Viet Nam. Just because JFK was assassinated, does not make him an American Hero. All those young men who followed orders and went to war, are the hero's and never again in our lifetimes should we ever step on our military like we did when we surrendered to Viet Nam and treated our soldiers like crap. Every American, should hang their heads in shame for the treatment given our Viet Nam troops, "hero's"
@cagal55 Sorry to disagree with your delusional thinking about Kennedy and the "INEVITABLE ESCALATION OF VIET NAM" , but the paperwork was on his desk to "WITHDRAW THE ADVISOR'S FROM VIET NAM AND NOT GET INVOLVED IN A CIVIL WAR AND EVENTUAL NATION BUILDING SITUATION AFTER". John McNamara and Jack Kennedy Authored the paper and "JOHNSON TAR IT UP WHEN HE RETURNED FROM DALLAS". The Old Majority Whip (Johnson) had to pay back his his friends in the "War Industry" .
Amen to this, brother. He indeed intended to get American boys out of that trap only some dark force never permitted him to do so. It was Johnson who sent combat troops, who with his attitude favoured the "Tonkin Gulf Incident" fabricated as it was to involve de U.S in that bloody, nasty, godforsaken conflict. As the good captain that he always was he lost his life in trying to keep his men safe. May God bless him and keep him by His side as he deserves. We do not know what we lost.
They were not combat troops, but advisors, trainers to the Vietnamese army and it is proof he intended to withdraw them all by 1965 had he lived. By Christmas time on that accursed year of 1963 he was to call home a good portion of those you call troops. Do not dare to doubt his courage!!! That war was intended only as a billionary bussiness for some weapon makers and he knew it well as he knew this decission was really dangerous yet he made it. Johnson and Nixon are the r stupids if not worse.
Note: John Hersey's account of PT109 was printed in the New Yorker. The Navy, and J. Kennedy seeing the story as a good thing, wanted it reprinted in the more widely read Reader's Digest. Problem. New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, feuding with Digest Publisher DeWitt Wallace had just denied the Digest access to his material.
Ross however also financed Chasens Resturant in Beverly Hills. Kennedy made sure Chasens had wartime Scotch. The article was republished in the Digest
Had he not been assassinated there wouldn't had been a Vietnam. Learn your history before you comment. Kennedy had full intention of pulling out his security forces in Vietnam should the area get hot with fighting. You prick!
R.I.P. Jimmy Dean! You were a good entertainer and a very nice television host, helping to bring country music into the homes of the USA thru your wonderful TV variety show on ABC from 1963 to 1966. Watching your show each week with my dad is one of my fondest childhood memories. And you did a pretty fair job of acting on the Daniel Boone show and in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever.
@keca1430 he didn't call them troops... "Peace Keepers" was an easier thing to swallow than saying I'm sending the Military there.. 2 years.. Richard Nixon was left with a hard choice.. atleast back then it was.. we can look back now and say... yeah that was stupid.
@Marlockie Read your own History and then make a statement will you? They were called "advisors". Peacemakers were those who enlisted themselves on the Peace Corps and they were mainly sent to South America were they were commonly known as "Kennedy´s Kids". Johnson and Nixon were the real warmakers on Vietnam, you stupid!!!
If JFK and his men stayed awake and were not sleeping on duty it never would have happened. JFK was almost court martialed for that little mishap but his daddy got him out of hot water...
@TheZenBanjoist The sad fact is that the Elco PT boat's top speed when fully loaded was SLOWER than the destroyers and Cruisers the Japanese had in the water.. It's also a sad fact that the 109 lacked radar and that it's engines were loud enough to drown out sounds like an approaching Jap Destroyer. And at 2 in the ayem, it's DARK. No matter HOW awake you are, if you can't ping, hear or see a destroyer unril ir'a 10 seconds from you, you can't do much.
My comment about JFK was ment as an atempt at humor. ( He did get his boat cut in half) BUT I do admire him as a President. He stood up to Kruschev. and got the missles out of Cuba. Plus banging Marilyn Monroe....... yeah gotta like the man!
Ahh come on, how good was Kennedy? he was in command of a boat that could go 60mph, and he gets run over by a enemy ship that at best could go 30 mph?
Brings back some of my earliest memories.Hearing this and seeing that record spin on the turntable takes me back to 62 listening to this record on our old Silvertone hi-fi.Everything is just how I remembered it.THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!
Made back in the day when we had real war heroes as presidential material, not questionable Silver Star recipients or National Air Guard dodgers...
On the other hand, there's still one WWII hero with a Medal of Honor who's still active in politics - Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. And interestingly enough, he's of Japanese ethnicity. Shows that race doesn't matter when it comes to heroism in he US military, of course.
I read once that when asked about the movie made the story of the 109, his responce was something like : "that whole thing was more screwed up than the russians"/
My former boss was interested in history, especially naval history. He told me that Kennedy made a mistake that led to the collision. I can't remember what it was, but I know if I was in command the first thing I would have done is shit my pants.
I dont think u understood what I was saying I even if he gad made a mistake he made up for it read the whole conversation that was my answer and an extra up you jumped on
I love this song so much, I've listened to it over & over. Did anyone notiice that the tambourine player missed the beat twice (at 2:18 and 2:44)? Still, great song.
TO UNC68: You got it. Kennedy was morphing from a politician to a statesman. He had to go. Just imagine where the world would be today if he had lived. When Kennedy was in power, his Canadian counterpart was a guy named Pearson who was active on international scene and UN. I think JFK would have been a similar world leader.
You must be the only person alive who believes that Oswald had anything to do with JFK's assassination. Wake up America. Maybe someday George Bush Sr. will tell us what really happened.
I take it mob refers to the Jewish or Presbytearian Mafia. Oswald was poor shot -almost washed out of USMC. "Official sources" claim he used Italian rifle Italians called "the humanitarian" it was so inaccurate. Assassination spearheaded by U.S. Covert Ops under U.S. Industrialist Puppet Masters (led by Rockefeller and Bush families) - contracted out to Israeli Massad. Advise if you are CIA so I can increase Life Ins before your operatives frag me. If not CIA, you now know truth. Trust no one.
A wonderful, stirring song. I loved JFK. I loved Jimmy Dean. In today's times - bedevilled as we are by Awesomely Selfish Corporate Greed and all those multi-millionaire "Gordon Gecko" types who have led the world to the brink of a 1930's style Global Financial Depression - We could sure do with a good dose of those old-fashioned values espoused by such great men such as JFK and Jimmie. Selfless patriotism & fellowship / goodwill to all in our society - that's what we need a return to, so badly.
Even postumusly, why was Kennedy not awarded the Medal of Honor? What he did certainly fit the criteria.
dsspike51 2 weeks ago
8 people have no heart
bluesambucca 2 months ago
Hard to kill an Irish man,, dont cha think......?
CowboyAxe 3 months ago
I love this song.
Thanks.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 6 months ago
God Bless JFK, We can only hope to see your resolve again.
MrAcf37 7 months ago
kENNEDY WAS WITHDRAWING ALL ADVISORS FROM VIETNAM AND WOULD HAVE HAD ALL HOME BY HIS ELECTION IN 1964.The first thousand withdrawn landed here in the US the day he was assassinated. Three days later the Pentagon issued a notice saying that a mistake had been made and that the decisin now was to send up to 250,000 trrops over there. It escalated from that point when Kennedy had been taken out. And most late declassified files lead that the CIA and some high generals planned his assassination!
eubanksl 8 months ago
My most favourite song ever, since I was a kid. :)
Me and my friend were driving around the other day I was jammin' to this song, and she says "So whats the PT 109?" After explaining it to her she says, "And that JFK guy.. why is he SOO important?" THEN after, judging her immensly and explaining him, shes like "So he owns a boat?" Thats when I gave up. Some people...
But GREAT song :) :)
MrQuint168 8 months ago
R.I.P John Fitzgerald Kennedy
bananabaggy94 8 months ago
I have to disagree with almost all of your comments, JFK would indeed have had the war with Viet Nam. Just because JFK was assassinated, does not make him an American Hero. All those young men who followed orders and went to war, are the hero's and never again in our lifetimes should we ever step on our military like we did when we surrendered to Viet Nam and treated our soldiers like crap. Every American, should hang their heads in shame for the treatment given our Viet Nam troops, "hero's"
cagal55 11 months ago 4
@cagal55 Sorry to disagree with your delusional thinking about Kennedy and the "INEVITABLE ESCALATION OF VIET NAM" , but the paperwork was on his desk to "WITHDRAW THE ADVISOR'S FROM VIET NAM AND NOT GET INVOLVED IN A CIVIL WAR AND EVENTUAL NATION BUILDING SITUATION AFTER". John McNamara and Jack Kennedy Authored the paper and "JOHNSON TAR IT UP WHEN HE RETURNED FROM DALLAS". The Old Majority Whip (Johnson) had to pay back his his friends in the "War Industry" .
ilegworldchamp 11 months ago
Amen to this, brother. He indeed intended to get American boys out of that trap only some dark force never permitted him to do so. It was Johnson who sent combat troops, who with his attitude favoured the "Tonkin Gulf Incident" fabricated as it was to involve de U.S in that bloody, nasty, godforsaken conflict. As the good captain that he always was he lost his life in trying to keep his men safe. May God bless him and keep him by His side as he deserves. We do not know what we lost.
montseJFK 11 months ago
They were not combat troops, but advisors, trainers to the Vietnamese army and it is proof he intended to withdraw them all by 1965 had he lived. By Christmas time on that accursed year of 1963 he was to call home a good portion of those you call troops. Do not dare to doubt his courage!!! That war was intended only as a billionary bussiness for some weapon makers and he knew it well as he knew this decission was really dangerous yet he made it. Johnson and Nixon are the r stupids if not worse.
Juangokustar 1 year ago
I need this 45!
pieman97405 1 year ago
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TheTdeason 1 year ago
I'm deeply touched by this tribute to my favorite president, sung by darling Jimmy Dean, who just passed recently. He's so handsome on Daniel Boone.
lovinnotes 1 year ago
Great song! And a great president!
tron2102 1 year ago 2
Note: John Hersey's account of PT109 was printed in the New Yorker. The Navy, and J. Kennedy seeing the story as a good thing, wanted it reprinted in the more widely read Reader's Digest. Problem. New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, feuding with Digest Publisher DeWitt Wallace had just denied the Digest access to his material.
Ross however also financed Chasens Resturant in Beverly Hills. Kennedy made sure Chasens had wartime Scotch. The article was republished in the Digest
BlixsemFleerSneuw 1 year ago
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John kennedy was a prick. Thank him for nam.
bser3973 1 year ago
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TheTdeason 1 year ago
@bser3973
Had he not been assassinated there wouldn't had been a Vietnam. Learn your history before you comment. Kennedy had full intention of pulling out his security forces in Vietnam should the area get hot with fighting. You prick!
EndlessFilmLimited 1 year ago
Love Jimmy Dean's music :-)
JOSECHETATRIBUTE 1 year ago 2
There's an old saying. The artist or singer may be gone, but the music lives on. Thanks for the memories Jimmy Dean, especially here in OKC.
Larry N. Boyington, aka Larry Neal, former curator of the Wax Museum on the big 1520 KOMA
larrynealwaxmuseum 1 year ago
R.I.P. Jimmy Dean! You were a good entertainer and a very nice television host, helping to bring country music into the homes of the USA thru your wonderful TV variety show on ABC from 1963 to 1966. Watching your show each week with my dad is one of my fondest childhood memories. And you did a pretty fair job of acting on the Daniel Boone show and in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever.
keca1430 1 year ago 8
@keca1430 he didn't call them troops... "Peace Keepers" was an easier thing to swallow than saying I'm sending the Military there.. 2 years.. Richard Nixon was left with a hard choice.. atleast back then it was.. we can look back now and say... yeah that was stupid.
Marlockie 1 year ago
@Marlockie Read your own History and then make a statement will you? They were called "advisors". Peacemakers were those who enlisted themselves on the Peace Corps and they were mainly sent to South America were they were commonly known as "Kennedy´s Kids". Johnson and Nixon were the real warmakers on Vietnam, you stupid!!!
Juangokustar 1 year ago
RIP Jimmy Dean... This is my favorite song of yours
frankydman 1 year ago
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frankydman 1 year ago
Country music artist and sausage entrepreneur Jimmy Dean died at his home in Varina, Virginia, Sunday evening, police said. He was 81.
starlightgirlrules 1 year ago
R.I.P Jimmy.
nascar1111 1 year ago 3
RIP Jimmy. You did a fine job.
Barelytone 1 year ago 4
R.I.P. Jimmy
ProudFordMAN 1 year ago 2
we will miss you Jimmy
thobbyt 1 year ago 2
RIP Jimmy Dean - You were the man my friend.
camarosbob 1 year ago 2
JIMMY DEAN +1928-2010+ Rest In Peace
Andy1972206 1 year ago 3
He would have been 93 years young today(May 17,2010). But, LBJ, had otaher ideas.........
pjezierski 1 year ago
If JFK and his men stayed awake and were not sleeping on duty it never would have happened. JFK was almost court martialed for that little mishap but his daddy got him out of hot water...
TheZenBanjoist 1 year ago
@TheZenBanjoist The sad fact is that the Elco PT boat's top speed when fully loaded was SLOWER than the destroyers and Cruisers the Japanese had in the water.. It's also a sad fact that the 109 lacked radar and that it's engines were loud enough to drown out sounds like an approaching Jap Destroyer. And at 2 in the ayem, it's DARK. No matter HOW awake you are, if you can't ping, hear or see a destroyer unril ir'a 10 seconds from you, you can't do much.
BlixsemFleerSneuw 1 year ago
Thanks for this priceless post!
Tiberious018 1 year ago
Great hit from jimmy dean himself! much better than garth brooks and KD lang.
m16a1rifle 1 year ago
My comment about JFK was ment as an atempt at humor. ( He did get his boat cut in half) BUT I do admire him as a President. He stood up to Kruschev. and got the missles out of Cuba. Plus banging Marilyn Monroe....... yeah gotta like the man!
Sundancetr4 2 years ago
Ahh come on, how good was Kennedy? he was in command of a boat that could go 60mph, and he gets run over by a enemy ship that at best could go 30 mph?
Sundancetr4 2 years ago
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nascar1111 2 years ago
@Sundancetr4 Jap Destroyers were faster when the PT boat was fully loaded.
The destroyer in question was under orders to get the hell out of the area and moving at top speed already when it spotted the PT boat at night.
The 109 was idling to save fuel, awaiting orders. 10 seconds after seeing the Destroyer in the oh two hundred darkness, they were rammed by it.
The Faux News version of history is generally lies. Best not to cite it. Ridicule kind of sucks.
BlixsemFleerSneuw 1 year ago
@BlixsemFleerSneuw Where do you get your information from then if not from the news. Were you there personally?
lunchmoney52 1 year ago
@lunchmoney52 See wikipedia's account of the 109.
BlixsemFleerSneuw 1 year ago
What a wonderful song!
It brings back stirring memories of my oldest brother, unfortunately deceased, who first played it for me.
As kids, we built a bamboo hut in the forest, a hut we dubbed the PT-109, sometimes using it as we imagined we were caught up in the Pacific war.
As a kid, I misheard the lyrics as "the heat and guns of old Japan" and "back beyond, the Irish man."
I love the place names in the song, although it is hard to find lyrics with them.
Thanks for posting it!
jennyamelie 2 years ago
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nascar1111 2 years ago
Jenny, sorry bout your brother, and im glad you liked the song.
nascar1111 2 years ago
PT 109 is one of my favorite books. Kennedy was a TRUE war hero. I admire him tons!
Arisvladamira 2 years ago 2
I love this song. Thank you so much for putting it on You Tube.
starfish50 2 years ago
Thanks for this GREAT post!
Tiberious018 2 years ago
Brings back some of my earliest memories.Hearing this and seeing that record spin on the turntable takes me back to 62 listening to this record on our old Silvertone hi-fi.Everything is just how I remembered it.THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!
icut1 2 years ago
Made back in the day when we had real war heroes as presidential material, not questionable Silver Star recipients or National Air Guard dodgers...
On the other hand, there's still one WWII hero with a Medal of Honor who's still active in politics - Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. And interestingly enough, he's of Japanese ethnicity. Shows that race doesn't matter when it comes to heroism in he US military, of course.
CholeraSC 2 years ago
I have it from the man who turned the 109 boat to Kennedy that everyone on board was asleep when it was rammed by the Amagiri!
Skytroop 2 years ago
I read once that when asked about the movie made the story of the 109, his responce was something like : "that whole thing was more screwed up than the russians"/
jeffindiana 2 years ago
This is a different version than I've ever heard before.
jeffindiana 2 years ago
My former boss was interested in history, especially naval history. He told me that Kennedy made a mistake that led to the collision. I can't remember what it was, but I know if I was in command the first thing I would have done is shit my pants.
Reubenhubert 2 years ago
sounds like if he did that he made it up for the "mistake"
poolpig 2 years ago
Yes, he did. Too bad his life was cut too short.
Reubenhubert 2 years ago
Very sad, a waste
poolpig 2 years ago
No he DID NOT MAKE IT UP, this is a 100% true story of John F. Kennedy.
starfish50 2 years ago 19
no shit
poolpig 2 years ago
Are you just being fecisious. I wasn't. was just saying it is true.
starfish50 2 years ago
I dont think u understood what I was saying I even if he gad made a mistake he made up for it read the whole conversation that was my answer and an extra up you jumped on
poolpig 2 years ago
@starfish50 Yes it is, Kennedy ended up being awarded the Navy Cross for the deeds he performed which Jimmy Dean immoralized in this song.
Doug4422 1 year ago
I wonder what John F. Kennedy himself would have thought of this song had he heard it
frankydman 2 years ago
According to one biography- Jackie K. would sarcastically sing this to JFK when she felt he was being too pompous
BrandonTxOthor 2 years ago
He heard it.
javajax0987 2 years ago
I'll believe that, but what did he think about it. Was he impressed? Offended? Did he laugh?
frankydman 2 years ago
man i love this song-thanks for playing it. would be the leader of the country. what a line.
peteboy1113 2 years ago 2
I love this song so much, I've listened to it over & over. Did anyone notiice that the tambourine player missed the beat twice (at 2:18 and 2:44)? Still, great song.
towringer 2 years ago 3
wow I thougth jonny hor ton sign this , gass i was wornge
leroytirante 2 years ago
you were probably thinking of sink the bismarck
96koenig 2 years ago
This is the first record I ever bought.
manhatin 2 years ago 3
I bought this record too but it wasn't my first one. There were only two of us in my high school that liked country back in those days.
NcicHit 2 years ago
The first record I ever bought was the album of his speeches, after the assassination.
oneandatwo 2 years ago
good song first time i ever heard it. too bad pt 109 couldn't have killed more of those yellow bastards.
ltjohnpfd 3 years ago 2
Chinese are considered "yellow" not Japanese. China was our ally in World War 2.
nevarbackwards 3 years ago
I had that same 45 !!! Thanks!!!
redmancheyenne 3 years ago
TO UNC68: You got it. Kennedy was morphing from a politician to a statesman. He had to go. Just imagine where the world would be today if he had lived. When Kennedy was in power, his Canadian counterpart was a guy named Pearson who was active on international scene and UN. I think JFK would have been a similar world leader.
petertare 3 years ago
God.. I love this song. I am also 23. Love me oldies.
LanIost 3 years ago
LOve this gong. Jimmy Dean rules!!! Garth brooks sucks dick!!!
m16a1rifle 3 years ago 3
Man how I wish i could have shot Lee harvey Oswald. What a cowardous commie. Kennedy was a great president. GREAT SONG
crazycuntryboy2 3 years ago
You must be the only person alive who believes that Oswald had anything to do with JFK's assassination. Wake up America. Maybe someday George Bush Sr. will tell us what really happened.
petertare 3 years ago
Well hey i NEVER said he did it alone. I believe he did it with mob help.
crazycuntryboy2 3 years ago
I take it mob refers to the Jewish or Presbytearian Mafia. Oswald was poor shot -almost washed out of USMC. "Official sources" claim he used Italian rifle Italians called "the humanitarian" it was so inaccurate. Assassination spearheaded by U.S. Covert Ops under U.S. Industrialist Puppet Masters (led by Rockefeller and Bush families) - contracted out to Israeli Massad. Advise if you are CIA so I can increase Life Ins before your operatives frag me. If not CIA, you now know truth. Trust no one.
petertare 3 years ago
it was an international consensus. the federal reserve will not be denied its absolute power.
unc68 3 years ago
Great President. and Great Movie, with Cliff Robertson, as Jack Kennedy.
pjezierski 3 years ago 4
The first record I ever bought was P.T. 109
manhatin 3 years ago 3
this is an awesome song!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for putting it up. dad and i love this song
blacksheepsquadron91 3 years ago
A wonderful, stirring song. I loved JFK. I loved Jimmy Dean. In today's times - bedevilled as we are by Awesomely Selfish Corporate Greed and all those multi-millionaire "Gordon Gecko" types who have led the world to the brink of a 1930's style Global Financial Depression - We could sure do with a good dose of those old-fashioned values espoused by such great men such as JFK and Jimmie. Selfless patriotism & fellowship / goodwill to all in our society - that's what we need a return to, so badly.
colindominy 3 years ago 3