Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 8 – 9 p.m. EDT

Sixty years ago this fall, Lt. (j.g.) Porter Halyburton’s McDonnell F-4B Phantom was struck by anti-aircraft artillery while flying over North Vietnam. The pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Stan Olmstead, was killed, and Halyburton, the Radar Intercept Officer, ejected over enemy territory. Halyburton spent most of his seven years, four months as a POW in Hỏa Lò prison, infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton. Despite the physical and mental torture, meager diet, and inadequate medical care that characterized life for the POWs, Halyburton and the hundreds of American pilots and aviators being held at the prison formed a community, supporting each other and creating bonds that lasted long past their release in 1973.
Join us as Halyburton delivers a candid talk about his seven years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.