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James Forrestal
James Vincent Forrestal was an American politician and military officer who was the last cabinet-level United States secretary of the Navy and the first United States secretary of defense.
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politics · First United States Secretary of Defense (1892–1949) · military officer · banker · investment banker · politician · diarist · minister · also James Forrestal, James Vincent Forrestal, James V. Forrestal, Forrestal
Born 15 February 1892 · Died 22 May 1949 · Q463385
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2026· 1 entry
2017· 1 entry
On the final episode of the Netflix miniseries Wormwood, journalist Seymour Hersh implies that Forrestal's death may have been one of a series of deaths labeled as suicides that were actually covert assassinations by the
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2007· 1 entry
Aviation Week: James Forrestal Industry Leadership Award
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2002· 1 entry
In The Golden Age, a DC Comics Elseworlds "imaginary story" four-issue prestige format mini-series by James Robinson (writer) and Paul Smith (artist), Forrestal's death is shown to have been a murder
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2001· 1 entry
From the originals preserved in the Seeley G
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1966· 1 entry
A book-length treatment of the conspiracy theory was published in the fringe press
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1955· 1 entry
Anti-Communist investigative journalist Howard Rushmore claimed, without evidence, that the former Secretary had been murdered by Communists
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1954· 2 entries
The USN's new supercarrier was named USS Forrestal in his honor, as is the James V
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Journalist Walter Trohan published a piece listing Forrestal's death as part of a pattern of suspicious deaths of federal officials
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1951· 1 entry
And published as a 581-page book The Forrestal Diaries, edited by Walter Millis in October 1951
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1949· 6 entries
"I never had cause to doubt the accuracy of his judgments on this point
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Died 1949-05-22.
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Exhausted from overwork, Forrestal entered psychiatric treatment
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Angered over Forrestal's continued opposition to his defense economization policies, and concerned about reports in the press over his mental condition, Truman abruptly asked Forrestal to resign
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“...no group in this country should be permitted to influence our policy to the point it could endanger our national security.”
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Forrestal was preparing to make public proof of alien visitations and technology, and was forced by two Men in Black to choose between committing suicide or seeing his entire family killed
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1947· 3 entries
After the end of the war, President Harry S
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of Defense (1947–1949).
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Truman appointed Forrestal the first United States Secretary of Defense
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1946· 1 entry
And 1947, Forrestal had argued against partition of Palestine on the grounds it would infuriate Arab countries who supplied oil needed for the U
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1945· 1 entry
The day after the Nagasaki attack, the Japanese sent out a radio transmission saying that it was ready to accept the terms of the Allies' Potsdam Declaration, "with the understanding that said declaration does not compri
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1944· 3 entries
And held daily sessions in Washington, D
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After his immediate superior, Secretary Frank Knox, died from a heart attack
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of the Navy (1944–1947).
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1942· 1 entry
Present at the Battle of Kwajalein in 1944, and (as Secretary) witnessed the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945
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1940· 2 entries
Career landmark: Under Secretary of the Navy (1940–1944).
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Shortly before the United States entered the Second World War
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1923· 1 entry
Was appointed vice president in 1926, and by 1937 was president of the company
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1911· 1 entry
But transferred to Princeton University in his sophomore year, where he served as an editor for The Daily Princetonian
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1908· 1 entry
At the age of 16, he spent the next three years working for a trio of newspapers: the Matteawan Evening Journal, the Mount Vernon Argus and the Poughkeepsie News Press
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-02-15.
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