


Roosevelt who was then Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Joe Kennedy, never really enthusiastic about World War One, spent the war as an assistant general-manager of Bethlehem Steel and used the opportunity to buddy up to Franklin D. Figuring his was dead, or nearly so, and worried he would go to prison, one of Denis’s best friends rolled him under the guardrail, climbed into the other car, and sped off. Going through Port Henry local customs agents gave chase and the car he was in hit a rock cut and he was badly injured in the accident.

He was in the second of two cars of friends returning from Montreal with a small supply of beer. During Prohibition my grandfather’s brother Denis Warren, a veteran of some of the bloodiest American battles of the First World War, was left for dead on the side of Route 9N south of Port Henry on Lake Champlain.
