Posted on 09/11/2008 5:08:25 PM PDT by fishhound
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Sept. 13) - Swedish broadcaster SVT on Thursday released a previously unseen film clip purportedly showing the release of presidential candidate John McCain to the U.S. military in Hanoi in 1973. A former SVT reporter, Erik Eriksson, said he found the video in the network's archives when he was looking for footage for a book he was writing about his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam.
SVT posted the edited 39-second clip on its Web site on Thursday. It shows McCain stepping off a bus with other prisoners. He has a pronounced limp but is not using crutches. It then shows McCain standing in a lineup when his name is called. He walks up to salute and shake hands with U.S. military officers. The last part of the clip shows a U.S. Air Force jet taxiing on a runway. Eriksson said the footage was filmed in Hanoi on March 14, 1973, by a Vietnamese photographer whom he had contracted to film the release of U.S. prisoners.
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If it is not already posted can you someone ping it around.
Thank You. I did a title and keyword and came up dry.
That one is tough to find because of the odd title...
I’ve been hearing about this film all day. What is its significance? Did the ‘RAT Manchild try to say McCain was never a POW?
I know if it had been me I’d have done just about anything to walk unaided just to spit in the eye of the NVA.
Interesting. It shows how good looking he was when he was younger.
Thanks.
Everyone should see this.
I remember the buses they used when I was a kid, watching the releases/returns on TV.
We've always had video of the POW's arriving in America, but this shows them leaving Viet Nam. Not earthshaking stuff perhaps, but a piece of history that had been missing.
How about...It silently shows how he is everything John Kerry is not nor ever will be.
It also shows he’s hot.
I remember Erik Eriksson’s reports from North Vietnam.
They were shown on our networks. As I recall he worked
for Swedish Television.
I remember Erik Eriksson’s reports from North Vietnam.
They were shown on our networks. As I recall he worked
for Swedish Television.
This is weird. I swear I’ve seen videos of them being released to the Americans in Hanoi before. Maybe 20 years ago I saw a film, I think it was PBS, where they were marched out and went one at a time over to the U.S. side where they loaded on to a C-141. The C-141’s liftoff to the instrumental leadin from Neil Diamond’s “Hot August Night Live” as they started their journey home was a real tearjerker.
I’d hit it
LOL
A few weeks before the prisoners were released, they were given access to an open air area where they could actually talk and walk in a larger area. It was the first time many of the prisoners had actually seen each other, even though some had been in the same prison for years.
They also received larger portions of food and were fed more times each day. They had the opportunity to get baths and haircuts, along with clean clothes.
The kinder treatment was the way the prisoners knew that negotiations for their freedom were getting serious.
Oh...about McCain's walking without crutches. IIRC, a lot of the POWs had multiple surgeries to break and reset arms and legs that had healed incorrectly. That is most likely why McCain was using crutches in a later picture.
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