Kiss the Boys Goodbye How the United States Betrayed its own POWs in Vietnam by Monica Jensen-Stevenson
This book is about a devastating American scandal. In Kiss the Boys Goodbye, two award winning journalists provide startling evidence that the American government, right up to its highest echelons, knows, and has always known, that American POWs were left behind regularly obstructed the efforts of private citizens to discover the truth.
Monika Jensen-Stevenson, Emmy award winning producer of CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes and her husband, William Stevenson, author of the best selling A Man Called Intrepid, have written a heartbreaking account of men sacrificed to American foreign policy and to clandestine operations- some of them highly questionable- concealed from the American public and its elected representatives.
The story began in 1985, when Jensen-Stevenson was developing a segment for 60 minutes on ex-marine Bobby Garwood, who escaped from Vietnam in 1979 and claimed to have seen countless Americans still in captivity. He claimed, also, to have been a prisoner of war, but the government disagreed and convicted him-with surprising haste-of collaboration with the enemy, burying his story of prisoners along with his reputation. As she examined Garweed’s case more closely, Jensen- Stevenson found herself drawn into a world of secret information, anonymous sources, official obstruction, missing files, censored testimony and thinly veiled threats from highly placed government officials. She met with veterans families of missing men, disillusioned and outraged government officers- who shared with her the information and documents they had gathered painstakingly over the years. thus began a five- year investigation that produced some eye- opening revelations about the goerbment’’s abuse of power and secrecy.
This book is about a devastating American scandal. In Kiss the Boys Goodbye, two award winning journalists provide startling evidence that the American government, right up to its highest echelons, knows, and has always known, that American POWs were left behind regularly obstructed the efforts of private citizens to discover the truth.
Monika Jensen-Stevenson, Emmy award winning producer of CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes and her husband, William Stevenson, author of the best selling A Man Called Intrepid, have written a heartbreaking account of men sacrificed to American foreign policy and to clandestine operations- some of them highly questionable- concealed from the American public and its elected representatives.
The story began in 1985, when Jensen-Stevenson was developing a segment for 60 minutes on ex-marine Bobby Garwood, who escaped from Vietnam in 1979 and claimed to have seen countless Americans still in captivity. He claimed, also, to have been a prisoner of war, but the government disagreed and convicted him-with surprising haste-of collaboration with the enemy, burying his story of prisoners along with his reputation. As she examined Garweed’s case more closely, Jensen- Stevenson found herself drawn into a world of secret information, anonymous sources, official obstruction, missing files, censored testimony and thinly veiled threats from highly placed government officials. She met with veterans families of missing men, disillusioned and outraged government officers- who shared with her the information and documents they had gathered painstakingly over the years. thus began a five- year investigation that produced some eye- opening revelations about the goerbment’’s abuse of power and secrecy.
This book is about a devastating American scandal. In Kiss the Boys Goodbye, two award winning journalists provide startling evidence that the American government, right up to its highest echelons, knows, and has always known, that American POWs were left behind regularly obstructed the efforts of private citizens to discover the truth.
Monika Jensen-Stevenson, Emmy award winning producer of CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes and her husband, William Stevenson, author of the best selling A Man Called Intrepid, have written a heartbreaking account of men sacrificed to American foreign policy and to clandestine operations- some of them highly questionable- concealed from the American public and its elected representatives.
The story began in 1985, when Jensen-Stevenson was developing a segment for 60 minutes on ex-marine Bobby Garwood, who escaped from Vietnam in 1979 and claimed to have seen countless Americans still in captivity. He claimed, also, to have been a prisoner of war, but the government disagreed and convicted him-with surprising haste-of collaboration with the enemy, burying his story of prisoners along with his reputation. As she examined Garweed’s case more closely, Jensen- Stevenson found herself drawn into a world of secret information, anonymous sources, official obstruction, missing files, censored testimony and thinly veiled threats from highly placed government officials. She met with veterans families of missing men, disillusioned and outraged government officers- who shared with her the information and documents they had gathered painstakingly over the years. thus began a five- year investigation that produced some eye- opening revelations about the goerbment’’s abuse of power and secrecy.
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