Jack Cheevers: Act of War

Walker, Arthur, 321, 322

Walker, Barbara, 322

Walker, John Anthony, Jr., 320–22

Walker, Michael, 321, 322

Walsh, John P., 173–74

Washington Post , 245, 302, 305, 326–27

Wayne, John, 287

Wechsler, James, 304

Weeks, Jack, 114

Wegner, Monsignor Nicholas, 338–39

Weinraub, Bernard, 305

Wheeler, General Earle, 126, 342–43

Wheezy (North Korean interpreter), 134, 135, 144

White, Rear Admiral Marshall, 293, 301, 312, 327, 349–50

Whitworth, Jerry, 321

Wickersham, Victor, 257

Williams, Captain John, 314

Wilson, Bob, 224

Wilson, George C., 305–6, 326–27

Witch Doctor (North Korean prison physician), 190, 205, 218, 263

Woelk, Fireman Steve, 74, 86, 182–84, 283, 348, 370

Wonsan, North Korea, 1, 50, 54, 58–60, 63, 72, 77, 80, 81, 84, 87, 90, 91, 106, 108, 111, 117, 128, 166, 168, 183, 204, 221, 292, 297

Woodward, Major General Gilbert, 227–28, 230–34, 254, 257, 258, 260–62, 265–66, 281, 282, 373

World War II, 12, 259, 292, 293

Wright, Major John, 81–82, 89–92, 129, 347

Yalu River, 153

Yellow Sea, 114

Yi Hu-rak, 174, 176

Yi Sun-sin, Admiral, 199

Yo-do, North Korea, 59

Yokosuka, Japan, 14, 24, 32–33, 37–39, 122

Young, Stephen, 215

Yurchenko, Vitaly, 322

Yuri island, 1

Zech, Captain Lando, 38

Ziontz family, 304

Zumwalt, Admiral Elmo, 360, 361

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Cheevers, Jack.

Act of war: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the capture of the spy ship Pueblo /Jack Cheevers.

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1. Pueblo Incident, 1968. 2. Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908–1973. 3. Korea (North)—Foreign relations—United States. 4. United States—Foreign relations—Korea (North) I. Title.

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The author knows of no credible evidence that American troops committed war crimes in Sinchon. Bruce Cumings, a University of Chicago historian and a leading scholar of the Korean War, has written that, following a 1987 visit, he became convinced that “a terrible atrocity had taken place” there, although he wasn’t sure who was responsible. Cumings cites the work of South Korean dissident writer Hwang Sok-yong, who interviewed people who said they witnessed massacres in the area. In his novel The Guest , Hwang suggests that after United Nations troops occupied Sinchon County during the war, right-wing youth groups and Christians from South Korea moved in and murdered many northern civilians. Hwang also says marauding communist guerrilla bands killed “anyone who got in their way.”