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The Admiral James & Sybil Stockdale Arena at South Kent School was named after Stockdale and his wife in April 2014. [ 40 ] In October 2014, Airbase Arizona of the Commemorative Air Force placed on display a restored Grumman AF-2S Guardian (BuNo 126731) flown by vice admiral Stockdale early in his navy career with his name on the canopy rail ...
Police say Jacob Stockdale fired a 20-gauge shotgun twice at his mother, 54-year-old Kathryn Stockdale. He then shot his younger brother, 21-year-old James Stockdale, in the head.
Sybil Stockdale's husband, Jim Stockdale, was shot down in North Vietnam in 1965. [12] She then received a letter from her husband, who had become a POW, in April 1966 and asked for his status to be changed from MIA to POW. [13] After receiving the letter from her husband, Stockdale began organizing meetings between the wives. [1]
In Love and War is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's eight-year imprisonment in North Vietnam as a prisoner of war. During his confinement in sub-human living conditions within such camps as the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", Stockdale, amongst other American prisoners, led a resistance group against the North Vietnamese, facing torture, isolation, and starvation in attempts to break ...
Stockdale began his film-music composing career scoring director/producer Roger Corman’s first “art” film (entered in the 1989 Los Angeles Film Festival), Dance of the Damned, [1] and another Corman film Stripped To Kill 2. [1] [12] Stockdale met six-time Oscar-nominated composer Lalo Schifrin through his association with Henry Mancini. [3]
Sybil Elizabeth Stockdale (née Bailey; November 25, 1924 – October 10, 2015) was an American campaigner for families of Americans missing in South East Asia.. Sybil was the founder and first national coordinator of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, [1] [2] a nonprofit organization that worked on behalf of American Vietnam-era Missing in ...
The Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Award for Inspirational Leadership is a United States Navy award established in 1980 by United States Secretary of the Navy Edward Hidalgo to honor the inspirational leadership of James Stockdale, a Medal of Honor recipient in the Vietnam War, who exhibited exemplary leadership while a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for nearly eight years.
Stockdale as a Philospher. My only personal contact with Adm. Stockdale was in 1979 or 1980 when he addressed a group of "Old Crows" at one of their periodic luncheons which happened to be held in the building serving the rowing crews of the U. S. Naval Academy.