PRESIDENT KENNEDY SHUTTLES BETWEEN OTIS AFB HOSPITAL & CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
Boston, Massachusetts (JFK+50) On August 8, 1963, The Evening Star reports that last evening Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was "rushed to a Boston hospital, 67 miles from Otis AFB...to have specialists help him to breathe more easily."
After a "solitary supper" at Squaw Island*, President Kennedy visited with his wife then flew to Boston to see baby Patrick who, born prematurely, was "encased in a kind of incubator called isolette."
*JFK & his family used the Brambletyde House on Squaw Island near Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
JFK+50 NOTE
This was the first time in 68 years that a baby was born to a sitting President of the United States. In fact, JFK & GROVER CLEVELAND, both Democrats, are the only POTUS to have a baby born to their wives when they were in office.
SOURCE
"President Shuttling Between Hospitals," by Mary McGrory, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 8, 1963, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
