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BOSTON (CBS) - The USS Pueblo is the only ship in the United States Navy that is still being held captive. It has been held by North Korea since it was boarded and captured in 1968. Crewmembers ...
BRAINTREE – Jack Cheevers always wanted to write a book. It took the Braintree native and longtime California resident years to find the right subject – and then it took him a decade to get it ...
The plight of the Pueblo and its crew, as well as the stakes for U.S. intelligence and security, is told by author Jack Cheevers in the new book Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the ...
Fifty years ago, North Korea took an extraordinary gamble against the United States when communist gunboats attacked and captured a Navy spy ship, the USS Pueblo. One American sailor was killed in ...
Jack Cheevers is a retired newspaper journalist and author of the forthcoming book Overthrow: John F. Kennedy and the Murderous Saigon Coup That Led to the American Debacle in Vietnam.
IF YOU knew someone who threatened to murder a police chief, rape the chief’s wife and children, and shoot other officers to death, would you want him anywhere near your ...
Jack Cheevers is an Oakland writer finishing "Act of War," a book about North Korea's capture of the U.S. Navy spy ship Pueblo in 1968. It’s never pleasant watching politicians try to manipulate ...
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John E. "Jack" Cheevers, who served five terms as Town of Union Supervisor and was a former chairman of the Broome County Democratic Party, died Monday evening. He was 79. Cheevers, of Endicott ...
Jack Cheevers is author of “Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo. ...