On his 25th mission, Johnson and copilot Lt. Larry Chesley took heavy fire from anti-aircraft guns as they flew reconnaissance near Quang Bing, North Vietnam. They shot back but their guns jammed. The plane was hit. They bailed out over enemy territory. Both were captured and would spend the next seven years as POWs. Johnson had broken his right arm, dislocated his left shoulder and injured his back ejecting. He landed in a rice paddy. Two civilians tried to help him escape, but North Vietnamese soldiers caught up with them.
The would-be rescuers fled. He was taken to the infamous Hoa Lo prison, widely known as the Hanoi Hilton, where the North Vietnamese held especially difficult or valuable prisoners. Among his fellow captives was future senator John McCain, a Navy flier who would end up sharing a tiny cell with Johnson for 18 months.
Like the others, Johnson was subjected to torture and death threats. The wounds he received from ejecting were never properly tended to, and he would have difficulty using his right arm for the rest of his life.
In , Johnson was moved to a special unit about a mile from Hoa Lo, known among the Americans as Alcatraz — cells dug out of the courtyard at the Ministry of Defense and reserved for the most non-compliant POWs. Johnson would face 42 months of solitary confinement, shackled in leg irons in a cell measuring only 3 by 9 feet. The prisoners communicated by tapping on cell walls. Johnson took pride in being among a select group who defied the enemy so completely. And I was among them.
It was an honor, a medal I would wear in my heart. Then, in , a letter in his shaky handwriting arrived. Contact after that was intermittent, subject to the whim of the North Vietnamese. By , the war was nearing a close. On Feb. The seven-year test of endurance had ended. He returned home a hero, though he would shrug off the label. She never stopped caring, praying and loving. Her courage and strength held my family together in some of the darkest days of our lives.
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The decorated military veteran won his seat in the House in a special election in , and represented parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Congress for two decades.
Johnson earned a reputation as leading conservative, criticizing Democrats on a range of issues and regularly proposing to amend the U. Constitution to eliminate the federal income tax. Johnson also opposed Democratic efforts to establish timetables to withdraw U.
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