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“NAURO NATIVE KNOWS POSIT   HE CAN PILOT   11 ALIVE   NEED SMALL BOAT   KENNEDY”

— John F. Kennedy

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: John F. Kennedy
Type
reference · Secondary source
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Context

Message carved into a coconut after the wreck of PT-109 (6 August 1943). This has often been misquoted as "11 ALIVE NATIVE KNOWS POSIT & REEF NAURU ISLAND KENNEDY"

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Kennedy, John F.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: John F. Kennedy. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

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