Robert P. Chenoweth

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Robert P. Chenoweth was an American who served in Vietnam, during the War in Vietnam.[1]

He was taken captive there, and Colonel Theodore W. Guy, the senior American officer in the POW camp where he was held accused Chenoweth and seven other men of collaborating with the enemy.[2] One man committed suicide, while Chenoweth and the surviving six men were cleared of all charges.

References

  1. Michael E. Ruane (2017-09-22). "Traitors or patriots? Eight Vietnam POWs were charged with collaborating with the enemy.". Washington Post (Moscow, Idaho). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/09/22/traitors-or-patriots-eight-vietnam-pows-were-charged-with-collaborating-with-the-enemy/. Retrieved 2020-10-05. 
  2. John W. Finney (1973-07-04). "7 FORMER P.O.W.'S FREED OF CHARGES OF AIDING ENEMY". The New York Times (Washington, DC): p. 41. https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/04/archives/7-former-pows-freed-of-chargesof-aiding-enemy-army-and-navy-dismiss.html. Retrieved 2020-10-05. "The decision resolved a moral problem that has been besetting high‐ranking Pentagon officials since Air Force Col. Theodore W. Guy filed misconduct charges in late May against five Army and three Marine Corps enlisted men who were confined with him in a North Vietnamese prison camp near Hanoi known as “the Plantation.” One of the accused men committed suicide after the charges were filed."