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John McCain was shot down over North Vietnam on October 26, 1967; he was captured and would remain a prisoner of war for five and a half years. [17] During her husband's captivity, McCain raised their children in Orange Park, Florida, with the assistance of friends and neighbors in the Navy-oriented community. [18]
Oct 31, 2008 · The hero in the story of the McCain family is Carol, the first wife, who in 1969 endured a terrible accident, in the snow, that dismembered her body.
- She Was A Swimsuit Model Before She Had A Devastating Car Crash
- John McCain Adopted Her Two Children and They Had A Daughter Together
- He Met Cindy McCain While He and Carol Were Still Married
- John and Carol Later Became Friends and She Supported His Campaigns
Carol grew up in Philadelphia and had a successful career as a runway modelfor Jantzen swimwear while she lived in Philadelphia. Being 5’8″, she was the perfect height for her job. She was working a a model when she and John McCain married in 1965. But in 1969, she suffered a car crash that left her with severe internal injuries and a shattered pel...
John and Carol first met when he was in the Naval Academy. In 1958, she married one of his classmates, Alasdair Swanson, and they had two children: Douglas and Andrew. But they divorced in 1964 and she sued Alasdairfor infidelity. She and John met again in 1964 and began dating. They married on July 3, 1965 in Philadelphia. The very next year, he a...
In his 2002 memoir, John said that he and Carol were separated before he and Cindy started dating. But Los Angeles Times journalists discovered that he and Cindy were still living together in January 1980, after he and Cindy had been dating for nine months. John and Cindymarried five weeks after Carol and John were divorced. John McCain regretted h...
There was no bitterness between John and Carol. In 2008, she talked to the Daily Mailbecause she wanted to publicly show her support for John and his presidential campaign. At the time, she even had a John McCain sticker on her car.
Sep 10, 2008 · During her husband's captivity, Carol McCain was involved in a near-fatal automobile accident that left her with permanent injuries, a circumstance that posed some difficult adjustments for...
Oct 12, 2008 · McCain never learned of his wife's accident while in prison; Carol said she didn't want word of her grievous injuries to upset him further.
While visiting family in Philadelphia in 1969, she was in a car accident that almost took her life. After two years of surgery and physical therapy, she was four inches shorter and had some permanent challenges to her mobility.
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Sep 4, 2008 · Unbeknown to him, on Christmas Eve 1969, while visiting friends in Philadelphia, Carol had had a catastrophic accident, her car skidding off an icy road into a telephone pole.