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I love how cracked.com types all their stuff.
A few years late in my post but I just watched CSPAN Book TV from 6/14/01 which I DVRed from 2/16/2013 an interview of the author Tom Philpott from his book GLORY DENIED, THE SAGA OF JIM THOMPSON.
I always believed that Edward Alvarez was the longest held Vietnam War POW, but now I now that actually Jim Thompson was.