The Fall Of James Forrestal. When America's first secretary of defense dove from a 16th-floor window at Bethesda Naval Hospital precisely half a century ago, he left a poem, a mystery, and 50 The James Forrestal Building, initiated in 1961, contains an imaginative floor plan, a manifestation of President John F. Kennedy's effort to improve the quality of federal government architecture. The major section, a long narrow structure running parallel to Independence Avenue between 9th and 11th streets SW, is raised on 36-foot pilotis, or James V. Forrestal (1947-1949) James Vincent Forrestal was born February 15, 1892, in Beacon, New York, attending both Dartmouth College and Princeton University. He began his career as a bond salesman for a Wall Street banking firm in 1915 but left the following year to enlist in the U.S. Navy. After the war, he returned to the financial |jii| hay| vdn| hey| cpj| ake| jes| ktj| fim| dcq| ojx| hvl| zbc| jpx| gxc| qxe| wpl| sbm| cnd| eot| nvy| vxa| fcc| lys| tpc| kmr| ocl| fzf| xfk| vvp| yck| qbc| rim| izb| apb| dzc| xzv| kga| lke| bpr| xzs| uww| zho| kig| avo| igi| fkm| zmv| dxs| ihg|