The USS John F. Kennedy, a modified Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, is the first in the U.S. Navy named in honor of former President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated on November 22, 1963.

Amidst exploding ammunition, JFK’s Sea King helicopters evacuated dozens of injured crew. The frigate USS Pharris and ...

Comprised of the first-in-class Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation, USS America, and the Kennedy, the vessels were the last group of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the ...

Residents in the Chilean Port of Valparaíso have reported sighting the historic USS Kitty Hawk as she was being towed through the Pacific Ocean on her way to her final scrapping. The Kitty Hawk's ...

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1965, more than 300 civil rights demonstrators, led by Martin Luther King Jr., began a four-day march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Kitty Hawk: ...

The Kitty Hawk (CV-63) itself arrived at ISL in June ... Kennedy for three years, is shown in his original USS JFK cap near the Cameron County Amphitheater and Event Center shortly after the ...

CV 67 was where it began.” The former USS John F. Kennedy had the distinction of being the final conventionally powered aircraft built for the United States Navy, although her design had ...

USS Kitty Hawk will have to go all the way down to the tip of South America and back up because it is too big to get through the Panama Canal. USS Kitty Hawk CV63, the last conventionally powered ...