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Robert Ballard speaks at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, in Boston, Veterans Day, 2002. Ballard found the wreck of Kennedy's boat, PT-109, off the Solomon Islands. The PT boat, of which the young Kennedy was captain, was  sunk by the Japanese during World War II.
Robert Ballard speaks at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, in Boston, Veterans Day, 2002. Ballard found the wreck of Kennedy's boat, PT-109, off the Solomon Islands. The PT boat, of which the young Kennedy was captain, was sunk by the Japanese during World War II.
(AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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