Former POW-turned-senator who survived seven years in the Hanoi Hilton and blinked 'torture' in Morse code to CIA dies aged 89
Jeremiah Denton, the veteran who famously alerted the U.S. military to conditions at the so-called 'Hanoi Hilton' and other camps when he blinked the word 'torture' in Morse code during a television interview – a message missed by his captors. Denton, who was released from captivity in 1973, died of heart problems Friday, his grandson Edward Denton said. After returning from Vietnam, the elder Denton became the first Republican from Alabama elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.
