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John F. Kennedy‘s daughter Caroline Kennedy and grandson Jack Schlossberg honored the precocious president and the day of his endurance during World War II. Caroline, 65, and Jack, 30, went to the Solomon Islands connected August 2 to people 80 years since the sinking of PT109, which near JFK and his chap sailors stranded for a week. To grant their precocious relative, Caroline and her son did a one-mile contention successful the aforesaid waters that JFK swam 3 miles successful to get to information successful 1943.
“It was conscionable amazing,” Caroline said successful an interrogation with TODAY. “And I deliberation it truly gave maine a large appreciation for the heroism of my begetter and his unit and besides the Solomon scouts who rescued him. It was particularly meaningful to bash it with Jack.”
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy on with her lad Jack Schlossberg completed a peculiar aquatics to grant President John F. Kennedy and the 80th day of the miraculous endurance communicative that made him a warfare hero. pic.twitter.com/2bA4ae97eH
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 2, 2023
Jack, who is 1 of JFK’s three grandchildren, told TODAY that the aquatics “was beauteous difficult,” but helium inactive went done with it to grant his grandfather’s legacy. “I person a batch of appreciation and admiration for what my gramps did and the perseverance it indispensable person taken to survive,” Jack said.
JFK and the different sailors survived connected an land for 1 week, without nutrient and water, earlier they were rescued by 2 Solomon men. “It’s truly a communicative of large courageousness and bravery connected each sides,” Caroline said. Jack acknowledged that helium wouldn’t beryllium live contiguous if not for the men who saved JFK.
“I’ve been grooming each my beingness for this moment,” Jack added astir the one-mile aquatics helium did with his mom, who is the US Ambassador to Australia. “I’m truthful blessed to beryllium capable to bash it with my parent — who bushed maine successful the race,” helium besides said with a laugh.
Jack Schlossberg (Photo: CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Jack is Caroline’s lone lad and the lone grandson of the legendary JFK, who was infamously assassinated successful nationalist successful 1963 astatine the property of 46. He has 2 older sisters, Tatiana and Rose. Jack looks similar his precocious gramps but helium chose to prosecute a vocation successful instrumentality alternatively than politics. Still, he’s continued to grant JFK’s singular bequest by being a governmental activistic alongside his mother.
Jack made headlines successful July for denouncing his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr, 69, who is moving for president connected the Democratic summons successful 2024. Jack made an Instagram video wherever helium criticized Robert’s COVID-19 conspiracy theories and endorsed President Joe Biden for the adjacent election. “I’ve listened to him. I cognize him. I person nary thought wherefore anyone thinks helium should beryllium president,” Jack said astir his cousin. “What I bash cognize is his candidacy is an embarrassment. Let’s not beryllium distracted, again, by somebody’s vanity project.”
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