Fprty years ago this weekend a U.S. Army general who was stationed at a NATO facility in Italy was kidnapped by a Marxist terrorist group known as the Red Brigades.
General James Dozier spent the next 42 days in captivity, before a dramatic rescue.
And, as you’re about to hear in this interview, Dozier’s rescue by Italian special forces actually help break the back of the Red Brigades.
I met General Dozier and his wife Judy several years later. They wrote a book about that harrowing episode.
So here now from 1990 general James Dozier and his wife Judy.
General James Dozier is 90 now.