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	James Forrestal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was a Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense (September 17, 1947–March 28, 1949).
		Among the dicrepancies between the report and the accounts given in the principal Forrestal biographies are that the transcription of the poem by Sophocles appears to many to have been written in a hand other than Forrestal's, and there was broken glass found on Forrestal's bed, a fact that had not been previously reported.
		Forrestal himself maintained that he was being tracked and bugged by Israeli security agents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_V._Forrestal (1074 words)

	USS Forrestal
		Forrestal had been launching aircraft from her flight deck on strikes against an enemy whose coastline was only a few miles over the horizon.
		During the exercise, Forrestal traveled as far north as 62 degrees latitude, 150 miles south of Iceland, encountering seas to 34 feet, winds in excess of 70 knots, and a wind chill factor that drove the temperature as far down as 0 degrees.
		Forrestal's departure for her 20th major deployment was delayed when a fire caused major damage to a primary command and control trunk space.
	home.earthlink.net /~usn17/uss_forrestal.htm (3159 words)

	James Vincent Forrestal 1892-1949
		Forrestal was appointed Undersecretary of the Navy at the recommendation of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.
		Forrestal was against erosion of any of the navy's independence and used his influence on Capital Hill that the new head of the Defense Establishment would have little independent authority.
		Forrestal was trying to make the nation aware of the threat that he saw in the Soviet Union's own development the atomic bomb.
	members.aol.com /ILOVEFID/jvfbio.htm (2443 words)

	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		James Vincent Forrestal was born February 15, 1892, in Beacon, New York, attending both Dartmouth College and Princeton University.
		Forrestal served for six weeks as an administrative assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1940) before being named undersecretary of the Navy (1940-1944).
		Forrestal became the nation's first secretary of defense, serving President Harry S. Truman in that capacity from 1947 until he resigned in 1949 following a nervous breakdown.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/franklindelanoroosevelt/cabinet/navy/navyCopy3/email.html (192 words)

	Forrestal
		James Vincent Forrestal, born 15 February 1892 in Beacon, N.Y., attended Dartmouth and Princeton, and enlisted in the Navy in May 1917.
		Forrestal carried out this new assignment with such distinction that he was the natural choice as the first Secretary of Defense, a position to which he was appointed in September 1947, and in which he continued outstanding service to the Nation.
		Forrestal again brought her imposing presence to the 6th Fleet between 28 January 1960 and 31 August, visiting the ports usual to a Mediterranean deployment as well as Split, Yugoslavia.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/f3/forrestal.htm (682 words)

	James Forrestal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At the same time, Forrestal was becoming more and more worried about the (An elected governmental council in a Communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)) Soviet threat (see (Click link for more info and facts about The Russians are coming) The Russians are coming).
		Forrestal resigned on March 28, 1949, due to a "mental breakdown" and was checked into the (Click link for more info and facts about Bethesda Naval Hospital) Bethesda Naval Hospital.
		Forrestal himself maintained that he was being tracked by (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine) Israeli security agents.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_forrestal.htm (600 words)

	Nuclear Files: Library: Biographies: James V. Forrestal
		James Forrestal was born in Beacon, New York in 1892.
		Forrestal was dedicated to successfully reforming the national security structure, but faced many obstacles.
		Forrestal's dedication to change within the defense structure that gave the Secretary of Defense more authority in decision-making was the most important contribution of his career.
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/library/biographies/bio_forrestal-james.htm (376 words)

	James Forrestal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 - May 22, 1949) was a Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense (1947 - 1949).
		The conflict between Forrestal and the Airforce was probably the foremost cause of his mental breakdown and ultimate suicide.
		His 18 months at Defense came at an exceptionally difficult time for the US military establishment; Communists came to power in Czechoslovakia and China, Berlin was blockaded, necessitating the Berlin Airlift to keep it going, Israel's declaration of independence brought war to the Middle East, and negotiations were going on for the formation of NATO.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/james_forrestal (674 words)

	SecDef Histories - James Forrestal
		The president's subsequent selection of Forrestal, however ironic it might have appeared given the secretary of the Navy's resistance to unification, was deserved and logical considering his long experience in the Defense establishment and dedication to effective government administration.
		Forrestal brought to his new office a deep distrust of the Soviet Union and a determination to make the new national security structure workable.
		Forrestal asked the JCS to prepare both a $14.4 billion plan and an alternate budget of $17.5 to $18 billion, hoping that the president might accept the latter.
	www.defenselink.mil /specials/secdef_histories/bios/forrestal.htm (2091 words)

	CVA-59 USS Forrestal
		Forrestal (CVA-59) was launched 11 December 1954 by Newport News Shipbuildingand Drydock Co. Newport News, Va.; sponsored by Mrs.
		James V Forrestal,widow of Secretary Forrestal; and commissioned 1 October 1955, Captain R.L. Johnson in command.
		Forrestal again brought her imposing presence to the 6th Fleet between28 January 1960 and 31 August visiting the ports usual to a Mediterranean deployment as well as Split, Yugoslavia.
	www.multied.com /navy/CVA59Forrestal.html (461 words)

	James Forrestal: Biography
		Forrestal had become so overly suspicious that whenever the front door was opened or the bell rang, he would go to the area and peer out secretly to see who was there.
		Forrestal's general mood was one of depression and despondency.
		Forrestal would bring up somewhere and somehow a variant of the same theme: how this Government, which he knew was almost unmanageable, could be made to work, how men could be found who were competent to administer it, how methods and situations could be devised to make it possible for competent men to be wise.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAforrestal.htm (3331 words)

	James V. Forrestal
		From 1947 to 1949 James Forrestal served as the first Defense Secretary in U.S. history, in the Truman Administration.
		Earlier in the Truman Administration Forrestal was Secretary of Navy, a post that he was appointed to in 1944, in the FDR Administration.
		Some - including Henry Forrestal, his brother - believe that he was murdered by nefarious elements within the government; and others conclude that the investigation into his death was "as much of a sham as that of President Kennedy would be 14 years later".
	www.buddhistpeacegroup.org /pnac/forrestal.html (1206 words)

	MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND
		In Forrestal's case, the public was told in the very first press announcement of his death that he had stopped in the middle of copying over a classical poem, one that seems to welcome, in certain circumstances, the ending of one's life.
		Henry Forrestal recalled that Truman and [new Defense Secretary Louis] Johnson agreed that his brother was in fine shape and that the hospital officials admitted that he would have been released soon.
		Then he repeated his belief that James Forrestal did not kill himself, that he was murdered that someone strangled him and threw him out the window.
	www.patshannan.bizland.com /assassinationsforrestal.html (2030 words)

	James Forrestal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892–May 22, 1949) was a Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense (1947–1949).
		Forrestal himself maintained that he was being tracked by Israeli security agents.
		James Forrestal, Early Life and Career, Government Work, Forrestal's Death, Further reading and External links.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/James_V._Forrestal (654 words)

	Who Killed James Forrestal
		Forrestal, on the other hand, is more conventional in how he writes his small r’s, making either a single hump or an almost imperceptible double peak, while the transcriber has a very distinctive exaggerated first peak in almost every one he makes.
		Forrestal, on the other hand, is a typical "swagger," sagging down between peaks, as opposed to rounding over arches.
		In the well-received recent biography “Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal,” authors Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley argue that conflict with his own secretary of the Air Force, Stuart Symington, a passionate advocate of the supremacy of air power, played a key role in his professional and personal decline.
	www.dcdave.com /article4/041120a.html (2057 words)

	Key West Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Key West Agreement is the colloquial name for a policy paper entitled Functions of the Armed Forces and the Joint Chiefs of Staff drafted by James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
		Its most prominent feature was an outline for the division of air assets between the Army, Navy and the newly created Air Force which, with modifications, continues to provide the basis for the division of these assets in the US military today.
		Forrestal tenure synopsis: includes discussion of Key West
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Key_West_Agreement (235 words)

	The Truth Seeker - New Forrestal Document Exposes Cover-up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		James V. Forrestal was America's first Secretary of Defense.
		At around 1:45 am, May 22, some seven weeks after his admission to the hospital, Forrestal plunged from a 16th floor window of the hospital to his death.
		The summary concluded that Forrestal had died from the fall, but it had nothing to say about what caused the fall, except to conclude that no one associated with the Navy was responsible.
	www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /article.asp?ID=2343 (664 words)

	NAVetsUSA Naval History - USS Forrestal
		FORRESTAL returned from the Mediterranean on July 2, 1971, and entered the shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, on July 16 for a ten month overhaul.
		FORRESTAL left the shipyard on August 18 and resumed preparation for her 10th deployment to the Mediterranean for which she departed on September 22, 1972.
		Another "first" was experienced by FORRESTAL when on September 13th she was selected to undergo a Shock Test, a demolition of high explosives near the hull to test whether a ship of capital size could withstand the strain of full close-quarter combat and still remain fully operational.
	home.earthlink.net /~navetsusa/history/forrestal.html (1378 words)

	DIARIES OF JAMES V FORRESTAL, 1944-1949 Secretary of the Navy, 1944-1947, and First Secretary of Defence, 1947-1949 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		While the printed edition, The Forrestal Diaries, edited by Walter Millis with the collaboration of E. Duffield in 1951, runs to some 555 pages plus index, there are nearly 3000 pages of diary entries, mostly in typescript format which we are now able to reproduce in full.
		Forrestal's background was of a businessman of considerable wealth, power, and position.
		On 5 August 1940 the President nominated Forrestal to fill the position of Under Secretary of the Navy and he worked closely with Frank Knox (Secretary of the Navy) and Henry L. Stimson (Secretary of War).
	www.ampltd.co.uk /collections_az/DiariesJVForr/description.aspx (1739 words)

	USS Forrestal the Ship's Namesake James V. Forrestal
		Forrestal was appointed Secretary of the Navy in may 1944.
		This memorial to James Forrestal, as a spontaneous tribute to his lasting accomplishments in providing for national security and his selfless devotion to duty, was erected by thousands of his friends and co-workers of all rank and stations."
		USS Forrestal has long been and forever will be proud to be linked with such a great man, carrying on his indomitable spirit, dignity, and courage as the "First in Defense".
	www.forrestal.org /fidfacts/page2.htm (393 words)

	James Forrestal : James V. Forrestal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 - May 22, 1949) was a Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense, notorious for suddenly resigning and then committing suicide by throwing himself from a hospital window two months later.
		He became secretary of the Navy May 19, 1944, Henry Knox having died of a heart attack, and did a fine job of leading the Navy through the closing year of the war and the demobilization following.
		Pippo, seeing himself now so rich, thanked the cat more than her good offices; and that the ingenuity of a cat had done more.
	www.termsdefined.net /ja/james-v.-forrestal.html (577 words)

	GSB: DCDave's Column
		Authors Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley (Driven Patriot, the Life and Times of James Forrestal, 1992) have also stated that Forrestal was seen writing it, but by a different person from the one cited by Rogow, although they give Rogow as their source.
		In Forrestal’s case, the answers are yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.
		They painted Forrestal as a corrupt tool of Wall Street and the oil companies who put the interests of his cronies ahead of concern for the well being of refugees from European persecution.
	www.dcdave.com /article4/030528.html (2035 words)

	Stars & Stripes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal is greeted by Lt. Gen.
		Forrestal arrived by plane at 2 pm from Berlin, together with Gen Lucius D. Clay, EUCOM commander, and Robert Murphy, Clay's political adviser.
		Forrestal was scheduled to attend a dinner given by Clay tonight in Victory Guest House at Frankfurt, and to go to Heidelberg at 9 am tomorrow to be briefed on EUCOM operation by Lt Gen Clarence R. Huebner, deputy EUCOM commander.
	www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=126&article=24788&archive=true (598 words)

	Die Zeit - Politik : James V. Forrestal
		Forrestal ist kein Held, aber er weiß mit solchen umzugehen, und entgegen aller militärischen Tradition macht es ihm nichts aus, jederzeit seine Meinung zu ändern, wenn er es für richtig hält. Drei Jahre lang wehrte er sich gegen den Gedanken einer Zusammenlegung der Luft-, Sen- und Landstreitkräfte.
		"Forrestal muß gehen", sagte damals ein enger Mitarbeiter Trumans, "weil er den Präsidenten in dessen schwerer Stunde nicht unterstützt hat." Das ist gewiß.
		Forrestal trat für ein enges, automatisches Bündnissystem des Westens ein, so wie es den europäischen Regierungen vorschwebt.
	www.zeit.de /archiv/1949/10/Zt19490310_002_0007_p (628 words)

	James Vincent Forrestal, Secretary of Defense
		In the early morning hours of May 22, 1949, the recently ousted first American Secretary of Defense, James Vincent Forrestal, committed suicide at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.
		His death came as a shock to official Washington, where he had been a commanding figure, yet to those who knew him well, there was a certain grim logic to this tragic end.
		Forrestal believed that the Soviets were animated by messianic faith and would risk war to spread the faith.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jvforres.htm (869 words)

	USS Forrestal the Ship's Namesake James V. Forrestal
		This nation has never had a more devoted servant, nor one with greater vision than James Forrestal.
		But for his untiring efforts, brilliance and devotion, our nation would not be enjoying the tenuous peace we have today.
		Forrestal has at least one high school, the building that houses the Department of Energy in Washington, D. C., a corporate research park at Princeton University, and a lecture series at the U. Naval Academy named for him as well.
	www.forrestal.org /fidfacts/page3.htm (199 words)

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