Admiral Jeremiah Denton a Vietnam war POW blinks the word Torture in Morse code during this taped interview. Denton endured almost eight years of grueling conditions as an American prisoner of war (POW) in North Vietnam after the A-6 Intruder he was piloting was shot down in 1965. He was the first of all American POWs released by Hanoi to step off an American plane during Operation Homecoming in February 1973. As one of the earliest and highest-ranking officers to be taken prisoner in North Viet

In 1966, during the Vietnam War, U.S. Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton was captured by North Vietnamese forces and forced into a propaganda interview on TV. Cleverly, he blinked in Morse code to spell “TORTURE,” secretly signaling to U.S. intelligence that American POWs were being tortured, giving the first proof of this abuse. | Historyinmemes