Jeremiah Denton

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Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. (July 15, 1924-1924 – March 28, 2014) was a United States citizen. Senator Senator representing Alabama from 1981 to 1987, a United States Navy Rear Admiral, and Naval Aviator captured during the Vietnam War. After the A-6 Intruder he was piloting was shot down in 1965, Denton was widely known for his almost eight years as an American prisoner of war (POW) in North Vietnam.

During Operation Homecoming in February 1973, he was the first of all American POWs held captive and released by Hanoi to step off an American plane.

Denton, as one of North Vietnam's youngest and top-ranking officers, was coerced by his captors to attend a 1966 televised propaganda interview, which was broadcast in the United States.

Denton blinked his eyes in Morse code, spelling the word "TORTURE" in Morse code, appearing to be on the first time to the United States, as answering questions and feigning difficulty with the blinding television lights. According to a Navy Intelligence report, American POWs were tortured. Denton wrote When Hell Was in Session, a 1976 film starring Hal Holbrook.

Jeremiah, a 2015 documentary film made in Alabama Public Television, denton was also the subject of Alabama Public Television's Jeremiah documentary. Denton was elected to the United States Senate in 1980, where he concentrated on family rights and national security, helping pass the Adolescent Family Life Act (the so-called "Chastity Bill") in 1981 and directing the Judiciary Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism.

Early life and education

Denton was born in Mobile, Alabama, the oldest of three brothers and the uncle of Jeremiah Sr. and Irene (Steele) Denton. He attended McGill-Toolen Catholic High School (Class of 1942) and Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. Irene Claudia Jackson, his grandmother, was the grand-daughter of Roxana Virginia Hollinger, Alexander Hollinger's niece. Alexander Hollinger, brother-in-law of Congressman George Washington Owen, the first member of Congress elected from Mobile in a district that contained Mobile, was Alexander Hollinger. Alexander Hollinger was the brother of Owen's wife Sarah Louise Hollinger.

He enrolled in the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in June 1943, and graduated three years later in the accelerated Class of 1947, the same as future President Jimmy Carter.

Personal life

The former Kathryn Jane Maury, Denton's first wife and mother of his seven children, died after sixty-one years of marriage. In 2010, he married Mary Belle Bordone.

James S. Denton, publisher and editor of World Affairs and the head of the World Affairs Institute, was among his children.

Denton died of heart disease at a hospice in Virginia Beach on March 28, 2014, at the age of 89. He and his wife Jane are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Career

His 34-year naval career included service on several ships and on aircraft, including airships (blimps). Naval operations was his main field of interest. He has also served as a test pilot, flight instructor, and commanding officer of an attack squadron flying the A-6 Intruder.

He was credited with inventing naval strategy and tactics for nuclear war as the "Haystack Concept"'s designer in 1957. According to this scheme, aircraft carriers were intermingling with commercial shipping and avoiding formations suggestive of a naval fleet. The scheme was simulated in maneuvers and demonstrated effectiveness, allowing two aircraft carrier fleets thirty-five mock atomic launches before aggressor aircraft and submarines were able to deter them. He continued to serve as Commander of the United States Sixth Fleet as the rank of Commander (O-5).

Denton earned the prestigious President's Award at the Armed Forces Staff College and the Naval War College, where his thesis on international affairs received top honors. He earned his Master of Arts in International Affairs from George Washington University's School of Public and International Affairs in Washington, D.C., in 1964.

During the Vietnam War, Denton served as a United States Naval Aviator. He became the prospective Commanding Officer of Attack Squadron Seventy-Five, which was based on the aircraft carrier US Independence in February 1965. (CV-62).

Commander Denton was piloting his A-6A Intruder jet (BUNO 151577) over North Vietnam off the Independence, which was stationed in the South China Sea, on July 18, 1965. He and LTJG Bill Tschudy, his bombardier/navigator, were forced to pull his plane out of service immediately after its launch, after which it went down out of control near Thanh Hoa in North Vietnam. Both men were arrested and arrested shortly after and taken prisoner.

For nearly eight years, Denton and Tschudy were held in solitary detention, four of which were spent in solitary detention. During the Hanoi March in 1966, Denton was renowned for his leadership, as he and over 50 American prisoners were paraded through Hanoi's streets and beat by North Vietnamese civilians. Denton is best known from this period of his life, when he was forced to attend as an American POW by his North Vietnamese captors. For the first time to the United States Office of Naval Intelligence and Americans, American POWs were tortured in North Vietnam, he sent a distress note. During the interview, he blinked his eyes in Morse code, with the word "T-O-R-U-E" being repeated. "I don't know what's going on in Vietnam," he said, but I do know what it is doing, but whatever the government's situation is, I support it whole." Regardless of the government's current situation, I believe in it. Sir, yes sir. I am a member of the government, and it is my job to promote it, and I will continue to live as long as I live." He was promoted to the rank of captain while being a prisoner. When a prisoner of war, Denton was given the Navy Cross and other awards for heroism.

Denton was first arrested to the Hawa L Prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton," and later moved to the Cu Loo Detention Center, where he was dubbed the "Zoo." In 1967, he was transferred to "Alcatraz" prison. Here, he joined the "Alcatraz Gang" group of American POWs. George Coker, Harry Jenkins, Samuel Johnson, George McKnight, James Mulligan, Howard Rutledge, Robert Shumaker, James Stockdale (who had graduated with Denton from the Naval Academy), Ronald Storz, and Nels Tanner were among the group's members. They were put in "Alcatraz" and solitary confinement to distinguish them from other POWs because of their tenacious resistance and some POWs' success in escaping their captors. "Alcatraz" was a special facility in a courtyard behind the North Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense, which is just over a mile away from Hoa Lo Prison. Most of the American POWs lived in windowless 3-by-9-foot (0.91 m 2.74 m) cells, with most in legcuffs.

During Operation Homecoming, both Denton and Tschudy were released in Hanoi by the North Vietnamese, as well as many other American POWs. Denton said, "We are proud to have the opportunity to represent our country in the face of challenging circumstances." For this day, we are deeply grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our country. "God bless America." The address appears in the 1987 film, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.

Denton spent time in Portsmouth, Virginia, and later was assigned to the Commander of Naval Air Forces, the United States Atlantic Fleet, from February to December 1973. Denton served as the Commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Norfolk (now known as the Joint Forces Staff College), from January 1974 to June 1977. His final service at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, was as Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Education and Training from June 1977 to his resignation from the Navy on November 1, 1977, in the rank of Rear Admiral.

In 1976, he wrote his book, When Hell was Session, about his arrest as an American POW in North Vietnam, which was turned into a television film starring Hal Holbrook as Denton.

From 1978 to 1980, Denton worked with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) as a consultant to CBN founder and friend Pat Robertson. Both Denton and Robertson repeatedly expressed support for the Contra forces in Nicaragua during their time with CBN. He founded and chaired the National Forum Foundation in 1981. Denton arranged donations of donated goods to countries in need of assistance through his National Forum Foundation.

Denton founded the Coalition for Decency, which attempted to make television less accessible by advising sponsors that encourage sexual promiscuity boycotts.

Political career

Denton ran for a U.S. Senate seat from his home state of Alabama in 1980, and was backed by Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. He easily defeated former President Barack Obama in the primary election. Armistead Selden, a Democrat who had switched parties and gained the support of the Republican establishment in the state, has been a legislator. In November, he stunned Democrats by defeating incumbent Donald W. Stewart in the Democratic primary election by 50.2 percent. Denton became the first retired Navy admiral to be elected to the US Senate by serving in that capacity. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, US Navy, was the second retired Navy admiral to serve in the Senate as a U.S. Navy admiral. (Ret.) from November 15, 1945 to November 5, 1946, the governor of Connecticut was elected to fill a vacant Senate seat.

He was the first Republican to be widely elected in Alabama after the United States' direct election in 1928. Senators began in 1913, the first Republican senator to represent Alabama in the Senate since Reconstruction, and the first Catholic to vote for statewide office in Alabama.

Senator Denton was the most outspoken on topics relating to the enforcement of sexual integrity and the protection of the nuclear family, a desire that he aspired to pursue with a $30 million bill to inspire chastity among teenagers. He was able to pass the Adolescent Family Life Act (nicknamed the "Chastity Bill") as part of the 1981 omnibus.

Denton was also outspoken on national security questions, particularly with regard to the Soviet Union. "We will have less national security than we had proportionately when George Washington's troops were walking around barefoot at Valley Forge in the mid-1980s," he told Time magazine at the start of the decade. Denton, along with Republican Senators Orrin Hatch and John East, founded and later chaired the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorist and Soviet attacks, which primarily concentrated on communist and Soviet threats. The committee alleged that left-wing activist organisations, journals, and spy thriller writer Arnaud de Borchgrave had been invaded by Soviet agents of the KGB, quoting testimonies from journalist Claire Sterling, former CIA director William Colby, former CIA director William Colby, journalist and spy thriller writer Arnaud de Borchgrave. Senator Joseph McCarthy's Red Scare tactics resembled those used by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1940s and 1950s, according to media at the time.

In 1986, Denton barely escaped his bid for reelection to the United States Senate by receiving 49.7 percent of the vote against the United States. Richard Shelby, a centrist Democrat who later became a Republican, was a congressman.

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