Podcast from the Richard Nixon Library and Foundation
50 years ago, 591 American prisoners of war were saved from North Vietnam. Hear their stories like never before.
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Meritorious Fireside Chat: Barry Bridger, Vietnam POW (January 28, 2021)
Hear from, and about the exciting life of, Lt. Col (Ret.) Barry B. Bridger, a six year survivor of Hoa Loa Prison, who was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over a North Vietnamese city in January of 1967. Ignoring international agreements on treatment of prisoners of war, the enemy resorted to mental and physical cruelties to obtain information, confessions and propaganda materials. Barry Bridger resisted their demands by calling upon his deepest inner strengths
