To mark the 50th anniversary of the return of American POW’s from Vietnam in 1973, author Alvin Townley talks about their harrowing experience and the work of the National League of POW-MIA Families to bring them home. Watch on October 29th at 10:30 AM ET on C-SPAN2 Watch online at: https://www.c-span.org/video/?522958-1/1973-vietnam-war-pows-return-50th-anniversary | American History TV

Admiral Jeremiah Denton a Vietnam war POW blinks the word Torture in Morse code during this taped interview. Denton endured almost eight years of grueling conditions as an American prisoner of war (POW) in North Vietnam after the A-6 Intruder he was piloting was shot down in 1965. He was the first of all American POWs released by Hanoi to step off an American plane during Operation Homecoming in February 1973. As one of the earliest and highest-ranking officers to be taken prisoner in North Viet

In 1966, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton was forced to participate in a televised interview intended as propaganda by his North Vietnamese captors. Throughout the interview, Denton ingeniously used Morse code by blinking his eyes to spell out the word “T-O-R-T-U-R-E,” covertly informing U.S. intelligence that American prisoners of war were being subjected to torture. This act provided the first confirmation of such mistreatment. | History In Pictures