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Article: Released, McCain the PoW; American hero: John McCain (also inset) limps forward to shake hands with an U.S. officer after his release by the Vietnamese in 1973.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2008
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Byline: Mail Foreign Service
UNSEEN footage emerged yesterday of U.S. presidential candidate John McCain as a proud, stoic prisoner of war in Hanoi on the day he was released by his Vietnamese captors.
The film reinforced the Republican candidate's past as an American war hero, probably his biggest asset in his white House campaign.
But the only doubt surrounded the timing of the clip's release - a day of patriotic fervour in America, the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Democrat sceptics refused to accept the film's emergence on such an emotional day from the archives of a Swedish television sta- tion was a ...