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Document 24124
JEREMIAH A. DENTON. Photograph signed:
"J.A. Denton". B/w, 8x10. On July 18, 1965, Navy Commander Denton was
leading a group of twenty-eight aircraft from the USS Independence in an
attack on enemy installations near Thanh Hoa when he was shot down and captured
by local North Vietnamese troops. He spent the next seven years and seven months
as a prisoner of war, suffering severe mistreatment and becoming the first U.S.
military captive to be subjected to four years of solitary confinement. During a
television interview arranged by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi in 1966, while
responding to questions and feigning sensitivity to harsh lighting, Denton
blinked his eyes in Morse Code, repeatedly spelling out a covert message:
"T-O-R-T-U-R-E". The interview was the first confirmation that American POWs in
Vietnam were being tortured. Denton was released on February 12, 1973, three
weeks after the war ended. In April, he was promoted to Rear Admiral. Denton
represented Alabama as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1981-1987, the only
retired Admiral or General ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Lightly
creased with minor diagonal crease (not evident head on) touching facial image.
Fine condition.
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