During the church service, Denton's son, James, read a fitting passage from the Bible's Book of Jeremiah: "I am the one who . . . makes you a fortified city, a pillar of iron, a wall of bronze.

The air was tense as North Vietnamese officials prepared to put Commander Jeremiah Denton in front of television cameras for a propaganda broadcast in May of 1966.

Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr., who spent 7½ years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and later won election to the U.S. Senate from Alabama, died Friday. He was 89. Denton, who served in the Senate ...

Former Alabama Sen. Jeremiah Denton, who survived 7½ years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and alerted the U.S. military to conditions there when he blinked the word "torture" in Morse code ...

Jeremiah Denton, the downed Navy pilot who was paraded before television cameras by the Viet Cong and confirmed U.S. suspicions of prisoner maltreatment during the Vietnam War by blinking out the ...

Prisoner of war Jeremiah Denton declared his loyalty to the U.S. government during a 1966 interview for what was supposed to be a propaganda film. But his enraged captors missed his more covert ...

Jeremiah Denton, the downed Navy pilot who was paraded before television cameras by the Viet Cong and confirmed U.S. suspicions of prisoner maltreatment during the Vietnam War by blinking out the ...

MOBILE, Alabama — When the Navy held a keel authentication ceremony in nearby Pascagoula, Mississippi, today for the USS Jere miah Denton, a new Navy destroyer, it recalled the days when almost ...

Jeremiah Denton, the Vietnam War POW who died Friday at age 89, uttered one of the great statements of defiance in American history. In 1965, he was shot down in his A-6 during a bombing run over ...

Prisoner of war Jeremiah Denton declared his loyalty to the U.S. government during a 1966 interview for what was supposed to be a propaganda film. But his enraged captors missed his more covert ...

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (WALA) - A reminder to anyone who uses the airport on Dauphin Island: The Jeremiah Denton Airport is closed for bulkhead improvements. The airport shut down on Oct. 16.