JFK Letters Revived

The Fox Business Network’s new show, “Strange Inheritance,” is a variant on the “Antiques Roadshow” theme as people learn the value of items they have inherited.  This Monday night at 9 the show is in Fall River’s Battleship Cove for a segment called “JFK Letters.”  They are examining a series of letters written by the then Lt. John F. Kennedy to the mother of a sailor killed on PT-109.  Her heirs, Francis Poirek of Tolland, Connecticut, and Dennis Harkins of Springfield, Massachusetts, learn they contain never-revealed details of the vessel’s deadly encounter with a Japanese destroyer in the waters of the Pacific in August 1943. 

See Lynne Chaput, ‘Strange Inheritance’ Spotlights JFK Letters, Providence Journal, Feb. 13, 2015.

Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.