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...Force secrecy curtain came the two RB-47 airmen who were released by the Russians shortly after John Kennedy's inauguration. In a prepared joint statement, followed by a question-and-answer session at Forbes Air Force Base, near Topeka,Kans., Captains Freeman B. Olmstead and John McKone (TIME cover, Feb. 3) told newsmen what happened to them after their RB-47 was shot down over the Barents Sea last July while flying a "ferret" mission to test Russian radar defenses. Their story of personal bravery under intense cold war pressures left unanswered the question...
Olmstead and McKone plopped into the "extremely cold and rough" Barents Sea, were kept afloat by their automatically inflated individual life rafts until they were picked up about six hours later by a Soviet fishing trawler. They never saw any of the other crew members.-Olmstead and McKone spent the next seven months in Russian prisons, most of the time in solitary confinement. Their cells were cramped and chilly. Strong lights burned steadily, 24 hours a day. Subsisting on "small but regular quantities of rice, macaroni products and boiled meat," they lost about 40 pounds apiece during their imprisonment. They...
Outstanding, repeat outstanding, article on the return of heroes McKone and Olmstead. Congratulations also to the wives who stood by their country and their Government even though at times it was frustrating...
...fine conduct of McCone and Olmstead while in Soviet custody is certainly praiseworthy. Unlike Francis Gary Powers, who at first opportunity convicted himself (and his country), McKone and Olmstead remained quiet, without committing our nation to resentment and abuse...
President Kennedy promised his news conference fortnight ago that the Russian-released RB-47 flyers, Air Force Captains Freeman Olmstead and John McKone, could tell their story publicly as soon as they were debriefed and back from leave. In their third week in the U.S., they were still on leave in Puerto Rico, still kept from the press by the Air Force...