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Article: Forgiving the Enemy; The First U.S. Ambassador to Hanoi, A Former POW, Moves On
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- The Washington Post
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- September 5, 1999
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In the late 1960s, filmmaker Sandy Northrop was a hippie who
participated in campus demonstrations against U.S. involvement in
Vietnam.
Now she lives in that country and has produced a film about a man
who helped wage that war. Her documentary, "Pete Peterson:
Assignment Hanoi," airs Thursday at 10 on WETA and at 11 on MPT.
Air Force Capt. Douglas "Pete" Peterson was on his 67th mission
when his F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber was shot down by the North
Vietnamese in 1966 near the port city of Haiphong. Imprisoned for 6
years, he was held in solitary confinement at various places,
including the infamous "Hanoi Hilton," and repeatedly interrogated
and tortured.
Thirty-one years after he was ...