aug 1, 1945 - 8/1/1945 JFK is the first after Forrestal to deplane in Frankfurt. Forrestal is also believed to have tried to recruit JFK on the trip. Robert Dallek: "The secretary, who knew Joe well and was greatly impressed by his twenty-eight-year-old son, wanted Jack to join his staff in the Navy Department... When Forrestal’s plane landed in Frankfurt, a journalist recalled, the plane doors opened, and out came Forrestal. Then, to my amazement, Jack Kennedy. Ike was meeting Forrestal. So Jack met Ike.”
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Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life : 1917-1963. Kindle Edition, 116-17 of 814https://www.amazon.com/Kennedys-Last-Stand-Eisenhower-Assassination/dp/B08RZFM42V
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aug 1, 1945
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~ 80 years ago