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...strike into North Vietnam in 1964, he was captured and imprisoned the following year at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton." As the senior officer, he was singled out by captors, who brutalized him repeatedly over 71/2 years and held him in solitary confinement for four years. Inspiring fellow POWS, including Senator John McCain, with the motto Unity over Self, he disfigured his face to ensure he would not be used in a propaganda film, slit his wrists to show he would rather die than submit and created a secret POW communications system. According to his citation, his defiance led the North...
Unlike Dean, McQueen, already 30 by the time he became a star in The Magnificent Seven, projected a full-grown, outdoor manliness, comfortable riding a stallion, a motorcycle or a race car. The characters he played faced long odds in a German POW camp (The Great Escape), at a poker table (The Cincinnati Kid) and in Faye Dunaway's arms (The Thomas Crown Affair), but the actor's wariness never failed him or failed to attract an audience. This DVD package and another, The Essential Steve McQueen Collection, are out this month: a 10-film fest honoring the silk-smooth...
...first 80 names on the list of American prisoners to be transferred from the Stalag IX-B POW camp to the underground tunnels of the small concentration camp on the banks of the river Elster were all recognizably Jewish. These 80 American Jews had already been segregated into a separate barracks at the POW camp, despite the attempts by some of them to destroy their dog tags—which the U.S. Army had engraved with an “H” for Hebrew. Many lied about their “race” when interrogated. In one instance...
...attack missions during the 1991 Gulf War, Cornum's Black Hawk 214 was shot down over southern Iraq. Five of the eight people aboard died, and she ended up in enemy captivity, with both arms broken and a bullet in her shoulder. During her eight days as a pow - one of only two female U.S. prisoners in that war - she was kissed and groped by an Iraqi soldier in the back of a truck. Cornum opted to keep quiet, but when she yelped in pain from her injuries, the soldier stopped. The incident made her an instant celebrity...
...George W. Bush and the Republican Party, to seemingly backtrack on plans to air a documentary attacking Senator John Kerry? Stolen Honor, in which some Vietnam veterans assail Kerry's antiwar activism, had reportedly been scheduled to air on 62 Sinclair affiliates. Instead, on 40 affiliates Sinclair aired A POW Story on Friday, a "news special" that drew on portions of Stolen Honor but also delved into the way politics and the media influence one another. Sinclair denies any about-face, saying that the company had never made a final decision to air the entire documentary. But there was, without...