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- Introduction. John McCain first entered the public spotlight as a Navy fighter pilot during the Vietnam War. Taken prisoner after his plane was shot down, he suffered five and a half years of torture and confinement before his release in 1973.
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- By Sydney H. Schanberg. The Nation – John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home.
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How many planes did John McCain crash in navy? A third was destroyed on the deck of the carrier USS Forrestal when a missile fired accidentally from another plane hit either the plane next to McCain's or, less likely, his own aircraft, triggering a disastrous fire that killed 134 sailors and nearly killed McCain.
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McCain and the POW Cover-Up The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam. Eighteen months ago, TAC publisher Ron Unz discovered an astonishing account of the role the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, had played in suppressing information about what happened to American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. Below, we present in full Sydney Schanberg’s explosive story.
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- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., grills Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the administration's handling of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi and the events that followed.And she blamed members of Congress for holding up additional aid to Libya that might make the country more secure and less chaotic.efending the administration’s immediate handling of the attack, Clinton clashed at times with Republicans over the account the administration gave in the initial days after Sept. 11. Clinton said the Obama administration did not try to mislead the American people about the cause of the attacks.
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Cindy McCain Hensley met John McCain in April 1979 at a military reception in Hawaii. He was the U.S. Navy liaison officer to the United States Senate and almost eighteen years her senior. McCain and Hensley quickly began a relationship, traveling between Arizona and Washington to see each other.
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Who is John McCain? Key facts about John McCain: 1  Republican nominee for the 2008 US presidential election. 2  Has an IQ of 133. 3  Almost flunked out of the Naval Academy, graduating in the bottom 0.5% of his class.  Was a Vietnamese spy in the Hanoi Hilton in Vietnam for over 5 1  years. Born in the Panama Canal Zone on August 29, 1936*.
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Cindy McCain Cindy Lou Hensley McCain is an American businesswoman, philanthropist, and humanitarian, and the wife of long-time United States Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona. She was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, as the daughter of wealthy beer distributor Jim Hensley. After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Southern California, she became a special education teacher. She married John McCain in 1980 and the couple moved to Arizona
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What John McCain Went Through as a POW McCain came to as he landed in a lake, but burdened by heavy equipment, he sank straight to the bottom. Able to kick to the surface momentarily for air, he somehow managed to activate his life preserver with his teeth. Once he reached the surface, he was pulled ashore by some North Vietnamese, the account said.
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Charles Kawalsky Talk1 Share. Charles Kawalsky was a Major in the United States Air Force and a friend of Colonel Jack O'Neill, the two having served together in the past. In 1982, Kawalsky was a member of Jack O'Neill's squad when he was a Captain. On a mission to East Germany in 1982 to extract a Russian spy named Boris, their commander, Colonel John Michaels was killed.
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The Rifleman - We Need Him Today! For you who have never heard of The Rifleman, well you're missing out on a great show. The Rifleman is an American Western television show that aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. During The Rifleman's production back in the early 1960's, its star was Chuck Connors who played Lucas McCain. His son Mark McCain was played by Johnny Crawford. It was set in the 1880s in the fictitious town of North Fork in the New Mexico Territory.
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- Been a long time since I saw a Bat Masterson TV show. The real Masterson was known to carry a Colt SAA with 4 3/4 barrel which has the muzzle flush with the end of the ejector rod housing. It is the standard rod and lifts the empties as well as any. Johnny Crawford who played Mark McCain in The Rifleman, is now a band leader at age 61.
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- [2012 Sept] The American Mossad, Rule By Deception This week, former presidential candidate John McCain criticized President Obama for failing to attack Iran.
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Cindy McCain Cindy McCain. This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 March 2017. Cindy Lou Hensley McCain (born May 20, 1954) is an American businesswoman, philanthropist, and humanitarian, and the wife of United States Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona. She was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, as the daughter of wealthy beer distributor Jim Hensley.
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Navy punishes 2 more over USS John S. McCain wreck The Navy fired the then-commander of the Japan-based 7th Fleet, Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, shortly after the McCain's crash. It followed the collision of the USS Fitzgerald and a container ship in waters off Japan in June, which killed seven sailors.
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John McCain: War Hero or North Vietnam's Go-To Collaborator? John McCain: War Hero or North Vietnam's Go-To Collaborator? 13/06/08 Counterpunch -- -- If you have no idea what war is about, thank your gods. It is not what you see in Mel Gibson movies, nor is it hidden within the Big Lie Big Brother tells you about Pat Tillman’s heroic “Army of One” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Here are 10 horrifying facts about one of the worst bullies in the Senate â Tom Cotton Follow Raw Story! Hailing from Arkansas, 37-year-old Senator Cotton boasts the title of being the youngest member of the Senate, but he spouts the old warmongering rhetoric of 78-year-old Senator John McCain. From Guantanamo to Iran, food stamps to women’s rights, here are ten reasons why Tom Cotton is a dangerous dude.
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John McCain On November 2, 2010, John McCain won re-election to the United States Senate. He defeated Rodney Glassman (D), David Nolan (L), Jerry Joslyn (G) and a handful of write-in candidates in the general election.
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McCain Profile: Prisoner of war McCain's battered body sank 15 feet to the bottom of the muddy lake. He managed to kick his way to the surface with his one good leg, but his equipment dragged him back down. Finally, as he went down for a third time, McCain used his teeth to inflate his life preserver and bobbed to the surface.
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Who is John McCain? An In-Depth Look at the Arizona Senatorâs Rise to Prominence AMY GOODMAN: Our guest right now is John Dougherty, a staff reporter for The Phoenix New Times, as we talk about the rise to prominence of John McCain. You talk about the Keating five. Very briefly, explain the scandal. Even people who lived through it and paid a lot of attention might have forgotten about it by now.
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John McCain, Hero of the U.S.S. Forrestal Fire While many think of John McCain as a hero of the U.S.S. Forrestal fire, few know he was the jerk who started it. From the Man Talk Blog by J.H. Holtz: “… McCain all by himself nearly sank a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier…. McCain, when a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy was a Navy pilot (they call themselves aviators).
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Jack McCain Wedding: Sen. John McCainâs Son Marries Renee Swift (PHOTOS) Jack McCain, 27, is the fifth of the senator's seven children. A lieutenant in the Air Force, he dressed in full regalia to marry his wife, an Air Force Reserve captain, the Washington Post notes. From the looks of it, the lavish wedding was everything one might expect.
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John McCain John Sidney McCain, III was born in Panama Canal Zone, August 29, 1936. He attended school in Alexandria, Va., and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958. In 1973 he graduated from the National War College, Washington, D.C.. He was a pilot in the United States Navy from 1958 until 1981.
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Defiant Trump refuses to apologize to McCain Donald Trump in 2008: I like, respect John McCain 01:17. The comments met with a mix of gasps, boos, laughter and some applause from an audience. McCain, a Naval aviator, was shot down in 1967 over North Vietnam and fractured both arms and legs after being ejected from his aircraft.
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John McCain, Hero of the U.S.S. Forrestal Fire McCain, when a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy was a Navy pilot (they call themselves aviators). July 29, 1967 while on the deck and in his plane on the carrier U.S.S. Forrestal he managed to screw up procedures (officially denied and covered up by him and the Navy and also even promoted on Wikipedia if you care to look–reason to follow).
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Is John McCain a War Hero? Like John McCain, Ted Sampley is either a folk hero or a sleaze. It simply depends upon whom you ask. Just about everyone in the POW/MIA movement--and beyond that, in the broader veterans community--has an opinion.