Jeremiah Denton, Jr.

…the North Vietnamese, Navy pilot Jeremiah Denton, Jr., still found an ingenious and courageous way to communicate with U.S. officials about the conditions he and other captives faced during the Vietnam War. Denton was captured on July 18, 1965, when the plane he was piloting was shot down over North…

Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr., had been held by the North Vietnamese for 10 months when he met with a Japanese television journalist on May 2, 1966.