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Admiral Jeremiah Denton Blinks Morse Code Warning as P.O.W.
Audie Murphy American Legend
A short 1966 propaganda interview clip in which Jeremiah Denton, a US prisoner of war in Vietnam, blinks the word TORTURE in Morse code. Naval Intelligence later decoded the message.
Cited as the classic real-world use of Morse code to smuggle out a message under duress.
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