{"id":482470,"date":"2026-02-18T06:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482470\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:58:07","slug":"he-did-it-for-us-us-soldier-recalls-jesse-jacksons-efforts-to-free-him-and-two-other-pows-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482470\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;He did it for us&#039;: US soldier recalls Jesse Jackson&#039;s efforts to free him and two other POWs &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5kV0JBVndOMkMzVThQRk54WjNrMGo5YmZWcXpSTkQxdksyMTA1dmFLRElqV3hwSFp0VjM4eGlCM2E0OTc4N2V1Uk5xdnYyOThtdndvRndIWGdpQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;He did it for us&#8217;: US soldier recalls Jesse Jackson&#8217;s efforts to free him and two other POWs<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiywFBVV95cUxQc1hYdkxHWmg3YThKVzBmRU9ZdmZPUGxDZzJUWkszbFd0c29xcktEZGoxOHA3T055RE5FSkRnWG51Z2d5MzJXOHhEWWJTTGQ4WjlkYmtjaFJ1VVA3Zk5zeXlUX0x3YVJ1ZXBhZUMwaTUwTkwzTmZHNjNPVm9POXNFd2haeVRpTmhvRkktNlR5MmRuMEpJZk9ueE52bDFpSkI0OUlrZU9ESnl6OXZZU1lOdjAzcFpKaHZwMDhHc21xLVM4TnZNSU5pVmh1WQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader after Martin Luther King Jr., has died at 84<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CTV News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxQb3ZUNGhZN3dGZXl5c2hNR2hmR01GOTVtc1E4RmhiLWk2XzliRlRjZk1maVI3QWJINUx1MWIzSmU5UFBIdy1iOVRkYUR0NTRaeTdBcEtyQkpLQjd6SmxLZ0VGUzY2V3ZhNmF4R1QzMmZrVjJiVHJGam9aVnMtV2ViUHBrXzFId1A1UzlEY0N6SEhkdjlYX00zSlJNcDQ5cE5BZS1tSXhYN1BOd9IBrwFBVV95cUxNLXlROUowQWU4MVFVRnFvZEZ0czFCZ1d2STFabGVhQWlFanVfM2FZUWJSRDduR181TXNiWG1TWGZTd0o2WEZfNjg3MjNzUXZhX29YRTBVSlpfM09PVUExLUNMbTBhbEZsZ18xM3BNbUlrSGsxS3hHaGdsLTBpVU9zdmtoS1U5a1lwZUVsdTNpYWlxc0U5NEhNU1FpV1VYMkFKMmpqZmtLTzc0MkFQTk13?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How Jesse Jackson helped empower US Arabs and lift up the Palestinian cause<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Al Jazeera<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitgFBVV95cUxPNXg0ZUtWcDBZZ3dNZ2k2T0VIdFFDeUZ0SWYyR29jZGo5OVVyb1VrcGVqTXItSUxsdkxVZHRzaGRVcS1VYWNFRUVTejRPNHU1VWMta1R1dmptdnZKSEZGdDdSOWZnem9YVGNqMUZEaVhReEdyMm5CNHZQOENBMU1Jc0UwdWhURU5iMFdaeW9mZjNaOGdnNlB6UzVpQnpGb3FwRzVwOUE1SFNHRlZrSWFKQWZhU19kQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Video: U.S. civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson dies at 84<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;He did it for us&#8217;: US soldier recalls Jesse Jackson&#8217;s efforts to free him and two other POWs&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCRev.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-482470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}