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Here’s the NY Times interview with McCain from Saigon. Bernard Weinraub was the reporter.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/politics/20080203_MCCAIN_TIMELINE/content/pdf/19670731b.pdf

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https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/31/us/republicans-convention-new-york-apple-s-almanac-mccain-trying-his-best-not-look.html

THE REPUBLICANS: THE CONVENTION IN NEW YORK — APPLE’S ALMANAC; McCain, Trying His Best Not to Look Back

By R.W. APPLE JR. - 8/31/04

Mr. McCain and I have been friends since I flew from Saigon in July 1967 to report on an accident on the aircraft carrier Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, in which a Zuni rocket accidentally detonated and set fire to the 400-gallon fuel tank of his A-4D Skyhawk, parked on the flight deck. More than 100 men were killed in the inferno that followed.

Afterwards, he came to stay at my house in Saigon for a week or so, and we enjoyed the bright lights of the wartime capital together. Only three months later, he was shot down and held as a prisoner of war in Hanoi for five long years.