Lost in the Cold War : : The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW / / Thomas Christensen, Jack Downey, John T. Downey.
In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard “Dick” Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were tortured, put t...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American–East Asian Relations
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- NOTE TO THE READER
- 1 A PERFECT AMBUSH
- 2 AN AMERICAN HERO ON A FOOL’S MISSION
- 3 WHO I AM, WHERE I CAME FROM
- 4 THE KOREAN WATERSHED The Cold War Begins for Downey and America
- 5 THE MAKING OF A MISSION
- 6 THE FLIGHT OVER CHINA
- 7 INTERROGATION DAYS IN SHENYANG
- 8 OF SOLDIERS AND SPIES
- 9 A MAN IN A BOX
- 10 THE LONG CONFESSION
- 11 THE TRIAL
- 12 B-29 CREW WERE RELEASED FROM CHINA
- 13 THE CHINA I SAW, WITH AMERICA IN MY MIND
- 14 “YOUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT YOU BACK” The Failure of U.S.-PRC Negotiations at Geneva
- 15 PRISON LIFE
- 16 CELLMATES
- 17 KEEPERS AND COMRADES
- 18 A PINHOLE VIEW ON A MASSIVE TRAGEDY 1958–1970
- 19 FAMILY VISITS
- 20 U.S.-PRC RAPPROCHEMENT AND JACK DOWNEY’S RELEASE 1968–1973
- 21 COMING HOME
- AFTERWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX