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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. [1] Forrestal came from a very strict middle-class Irish Catholic family.
May 29, 2009 · This month marked the 60th anniversary of the death of James V. Forrestal, America’s first secretary of defense. Historians were invited to comment on the official investigation of his death.
May 18, 2024 · James V. Forrestal (born February 15, 1892, Beacon, New York, U.S.—died May 22, 1949, Bethesda, Maryland) was the first U.S. secretary of defense (1947–49). Earlier, in the Navy Department, he directed the huge naval expansion and procurement programs of World War II.
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May 21, 2019 · David Martin's meticulously researched book provides a compelling account of the death of America's first Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, not as a suicide, but as murder at the hands of the Zionists.
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September 17, 1947 – March 28, 1949. Confronted immediately at its creation with complex global problems made more urgent by the Cold War, the new national security system had to begin functioning...
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Jun 27, 2018 · James Vincent Forrestal (1892-1949) was the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense. He was instrumental in building America's Navy during World War II and contributed to the unification of the armed forces.
James Vincent Forrestal was born on 15 February 1892, in Matteawan (now Beacon), New York. After he graduated from high school, Forrestal worked for three years at local...
Apr 25, 2023 · James V. Forrestal was the country’s first Secretary of Defense. Here’s the story of the Dutchess County man’s amazing life and legacy. James V. Forrestal was “Beacon’s favorite son,” according to the late Robert Murphy, president of the Beacon Historical Society (from 1998–2018).
Forrestal became the nation's first secretary of defense, serving President Harry S. Truman in that capacity from 1947 until he resigned in 1949. Shortly after his resignation, Forrestal was hospitalized because of severe depression.
A Naval Officer during World War II, James Forrestal was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy from 1944 to 1947, and the first United States Secretary of...
