{"id":18272,"date":"2023-07-15T00:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T00:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=18272"},"modified":"2023-07-15T00:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T00:54:54","slug":"air-force-oral-history-interview-maj-fred-n-thompson-2-june-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/air-force-oral-history-interview-maj-fred-n-thompson-2-june-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Oral History Interview: Maj. Fred N. Thompson – 2 June 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred Thompson was interned as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam after he was shot down on March 20, 1968. He received an EARLY RELEASE by the North Vietnamese and returned home on August 4, 1968.<\/p>\n

The record below is an oral history interview conducted with Major Fred N. Thompson by Major Samuel Riddlebarger and Major Richard Clement. The topics discussed were Major Thompson’s time as an F-100 pilot, along with his experience as a POW. The interview was collected under the Project Corona Harvest<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

This document remained classified for more than 53 years. Created in 1970, The Black Vault found reference to it in 2009, and requested the release of it. It was denied (FOIA case 2009-02421-F), based on the fact the USAF claimed the entire oral history was classified. In 2016, a new Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request was filed , and although it took nearly 7 years, it was released.<\/p>\n

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Air Force Oral History Interview: Maj. Fred N. Thompson – 2 June 1970<\/a> [94 Pages, 29MB]<\/h4>\n

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Fred Thompson was interned as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam after he was shot down on March 20, 1968. He received an EARLY RELEASE by the North Vietnamese and returned home on August 4, 1968. The record below is an oral history interview conducted with Major Fred N. Thompson by Major Samuel Riddlebarger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,7],"tags":[463,1996,83],"class_list":["post-18272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vietnam-era","category-wartime","tag-fred-thompson","tag-project-corona-harvest","tag-usaf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t