How a Navy wife saved her POW husband in Vietnam

In 1965, U.S. Navy pilot James Bond Stockdale was captured by the North Vietnamese and taken to the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison. When his wife, Sybil Stockdale, approached the CIA with a cryptic message from her husband, she was confronted with a life-changing decision. (4:35)


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