Free Podcast Series - Captured, Shot Down in Vietnam

The Richard Nixon Foundation presents a unique educational program for all ages, Captured: Shot Down in Vietnam, a serialized documentary podcast offered free of charge. The docuseries features newly surfaced Oval Office recordings from Presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson and new documentary interviews with Commander Everett Alvarez Jr., the first American shot down in Vietnam, Eugene “Red” McDaniel, POW/MIA family members, authors, and historians.

Experience the exhibition, Captured: Shot Down in Vietnam, now at The Nixon Library in Yorba Linda.

During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American aviators were shot down, imprisoned, tortured, and beaten, experiencing the harshest conditions imaginable. For as many as eight long years, the prisoners of war (POWs) stayed true to their mission and survived behind bars. They communicated through codes and raps on prison walls. They were unbelievably brave and resisted enemy propaganda. Their families knew little of their fate.