John McCain, prisoner of war in Vietnam, later Senator

Mar 14, 1973 - Hanoi, Vietnam - JOHN McCAIN on his release from captivity in North Vietnam. John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) was the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presumptive Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election. During the Vietnam War, he nearly lost his life in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. Later that year while on a bombing mission over North Vietnam, he was shot down, badly injured, and captured as a prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese. He spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war, experiencing episodes of torture; his war wounds would leave him with some lifelong physical disabilities

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