James Forrestal
Historical Figure
Nationality:	United States
Religion:	Catholicism
Date of Birth:	1892
Date of Death:	1949
Cause of Death:	Fall from a window (under suspicious circumstances)
Occupation:	Sailor, Politician
Spouse:	Josephine Stovall
Children:	Michael, Peter
Affiliations:	Democratic Party
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James Vincent Forrestal (1892–1949) was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1944-1947, and the first United States Secretary of Defense. He led the Navy through World War II, and implimented a policy of racial integration. His death, a fall from a hospital window, has been the center of much speculation.

James Forrestal in The Man With the Iron HeartEdit

By 1947, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal was growing very anxious about the possibility of the German Freedom Front introducing a radium bomb into the United States via freighter. This concern was shared by the senior Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee. Committee member Jerry Duncan (R-Indiana) discounted these concerns.^[1]

Literary commentEdit

James Forrestal was not named as the Secretary of the Navy, but the events of The Man With the Iron Heart do not appear to have impacted cabinet positions.

1. ↑ The Man With the Iron Heart, pg. 363.

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