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Jack Cheevers is a former Los Angeles Times reporter. He grew up in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in political science. For 27 years he was a newspaper reporter and editor in California. He began researching "Act of War" in 2000 by interviewing the Pueblo's charismatic ex-captain, Lloyd M. (Pete) Bucher. He subsequently interviewed other crewmen and former members of President Lyndon Johnson's administration who were involved with the Pueblo drama. Using the Freedom of Information Act, he obtained thousands of pages of previously secret documents from the State Department, Navy, Central Intelligence Agency, and National Security Agency. He also relied on archival ma ...more

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Welcome home, sailor

Picture As a captive of North Korea in 1968, USS Pueblo crewman Don McClarren often had dreams of gorging on a porterhouse steak smothered in chocolate ice cream.

Like the other 81 sailors who’d survived an attack on the U.S. spy ship by North Korean gunboats on Jan. 23, 1968, McClarren was taken ashore and tossed into a communist prison. There he and the others survived for the next 11 months on a starva Read more of this blog post »
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Act of War by Jack Cheevers
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The Pueblo was captured a little over a year before I joined the Army as a Army version of a Navy CT. I served in Korea several times and the capture and other events remained standard practice for North Kore" Read more of this review »
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"Unnerving account of the capture and imprisonment of the crew of the USS Pueblo by North Korea."
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"On January 23, 1968 the USS Pueblo, a lightly armed diminutive spy ship was boarded by heavily armed North Korean military near Wonsan and the American crewmen taken prisoner. Jack Cheevers, a former Los Angeles Times political reporter, painstakingl" Read more of this review »
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“It requires more courage to suffer than to die. —Napoleon Bonaparte”
Jack Cheevers, Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo

“12 ball problem,â€� which involves a dozen balls of the same size and color. One is heavier or lighter than the others. The challenge is to put the balls on a scale and figure out, in only three weighings, which of them is different, and whether it’s heavier or lighter. It took Bucher 12 hours to crack the problem; a brainy CT named Charles Ayling solved it in 60 minutes.”
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Napoleon Bonaparte

“12 ball problem,â€� which involves a dozen balls of the same size and color. One is heavier or lighter than the others. The challenge is to put the balls on a scale and figure out, in only three weighings, which of them is different, and whether it’s heavier or lighter. It took Bucher 12 hours to crack the problem; a brainy CT named Charles Ayling solved it in 60 minutes.”
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“It requires more courage to suffer than to die. —Napoleon Bonaparte”
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