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Jul 20, 2015 · What John McCain Went Through as a POW. For 5 and a half years, McCain was held captive by the North Vietnamese. -- Donald Trump sparked a new political controversy this past weekend when he ...
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Aug 27, 2018 · American Navy Lieutenant, and future U.S. Senator John Sidney McCain III, circa 1964. When John McCain made his first bid for public office in 1982, running for a House seat in Arizona, critics ...
Aug 28, 2018 · McCain, who died Saturday at age 81, spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war at Hoa Lo, known to most Americans as the “Hanoi Hilton.”. His Skyhawk jet was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 ...
Aug 26, 2018 · After a devastating ordeal as a POW in Vietnam, John McCain launched a political career, winning election to the U.S. Senate from Arizona for the first time in 1986. To his war-hero status, McCain ...
Oct 13, 2008 · Mon 13 Oct 2008 19.01 EDT. The Republican US presidential candidate John McCain was not tortured during his captivity in North Vietnam, the chief prison guard of the jail in which he was held has ...
Oct 10, 2008 · The McCain described in Tim Dickinson’s 11,000-word story wasn’t much of a navy pilot before he was nothing special as a POW, and since he left Hanoi 35 years ago he hasn’t been much of a ...
Sep 1, 2018 · Every movie we’d ever seen, every book we’d ever read.”. Retired U.S. Marine Corps Col. Orson Swindle, a former POW who shared a cell for a time with John McCain in Vietnam, speaks at the ...
