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Reference the story on Captains Olmstead and McKone in TIME, Dec. 12: the Department of State has repeatedly and insistently demanded the release of the two officers and has raised the matter at the highest level in the Soviet government, as well as with ranking Soviet officials in Washington, Moscow and at the United Nations in New York...
...grim Moscow prison, two Americans while away the hours of their lonely confinement. They read Dickens, Thackeray and the Bible; they write letters to their wives. It has been nearly five months since Air Force Lieutenants F. B. Olmstead and John McKone and four companions were shot down in their RB-47 reconnaissance plane over the Barents Sea. The two young officers were captured, brought to Moscow on loudly trumpeted but plainly trumped-up charges of espionage. The body of one fellow airman was returned to the U.S.; the others are listed as missing...
...letters that manage to seep through the Communist censorship. Among the personal messages the prisoners were permitted to write to their families, a few notes gave an inkling, especially as the Christmas season approached, of their solitary anguish. "I can't believe that nothing is happening," wrote Bruce Olmstead, "and I do my best to make it from one day to the next, hoping that some decision will present itself." Said John McKone: "This is an ordeal. I don't think that either one of us will ever be the same ... I have no idea what the future...
...legal precedents that apply to Orval Faubus v. the U.S. reach all the way back to a September night during the Revolutionary War when a Connecticut fisherman named Gideon Olmstead, two seamen and a boy, imprisoned aboard the British sloop Active, rose up and overpowered 14 British sailormen and captured the ship for the 13 states. Couple of days later the heroes were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold...
When U.S. marshals attempted to collect the money, Pennsylvania's Governor Simon Snyder deployed militiamen around the state treasurer's house and appealed to newly elected President Madison for support. But Madison replied in terms that left Pennsylvania no choice but to pay $18,000 to Olmstead, by then 83, and to call off the militia. Said Madison...