Interview with Robinson Risner, 1981 /

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Imprint:Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 1983.
Description:1 online resource (video file (57 min.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Series:American history in video
Vietnam : a television history
American history in video.
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13609157
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Other authors / contributors:Ellison, Richard, producer
Risner, Robinson, interviewee (expression), speaker.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:streaming video file
Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 5, 2012).
This edition in English.
Summary:Robinson Risner was an Air Force pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was held for over seven years and was repeatedly tortured. He relates his story of being shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese, and then the ordeal of his imprisonment and torture in the "Hanoi Hilton" prison camp. General Risner recalls his feelings during the "Christmas Bombing" and upon hearing of the peace negotiations, and toward the anti-war protesters in the United States.
Other form:Videodisc version: Interview with Robinson Risner, 1981. Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 1983 publisher catalog number 301191-1