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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1973
Page
4
The last of 587 POWs freed from North Vietnam and Viet Cong captivity spoke openly of beatings starvations and torture. Captors sought information while many endured severe abuses and isolation over years, yet most kept to name and serial number.
The first installment of Jeremiah Denton's POW memoir details 1965 66 torture in Thanh Hoa and Hanoi camps. He describes brutal interrogation, isolation in a black room, and his leadership from a senior officer role in the Zoo camp guiding other prisoners to resist propaganda and coercion.
The Wellsville column notes a 10 day Florida and southern states vacation. Charles Wenger and family from St Charles spent Thursday with his mother Mrs Otto Wenger. Larry Reidt and son of Spanish Lake Mo visited Thursday overnight with Mr and Mrs Fred Reighley. Reidt is daughter of Mrs Reighley and sister of Mrs Robert Hurshman.
Mrs. William Gifford Jr recuperates satisfactorily at home on Highway 22 after major surgery last week at Audrain Medical Center.
Hatton area social notes report Miss Sharon Pflantz of Columbia suffered a broken hip in a fall and was taken to Boone County Hospital where surgery was performed Sunday night. She is expected to stay about three weeks. Larkin Poff and family joined Lyndall Poff at Hallsville to visit Mrs. Boyd Brown and family. Andy Fry and his children spent the weekend in Kansas City visiting relatives including Bruce Fry and Ellen Barber among others. In Washington, Senators from Kansas and Missouri voted along party lines as the disaster loan program for farmers and rural homeowners was revived for 18 days by a 50 to 9 vote. Democrats Eagleton and Symington supported, Republicans Dole and Pearson opposed.
The last American POW freed in Vietnam plus 31 others left the Philippines for the United States. Seventy-seven POWs aboard the first C141 headed to Kelly Air Force Base in Texas. Crowds at Clark Air Base cheered amid garlands and flags as officers thanked the locals for their support. Officials said more POWs would follow in the weekend and by Monday, with total freed since the cease-fire reaching 586.
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