Link to John McCain, american maverick documentary
Documentary Description
this documentary reviews the career and personal life of Senator and
war hero John McCain. Born into a family with a distinguished
reputation in the U.S. Navy--McCain spent his childhood and adolescent
years moving between naval bases in America and abroad. He graduated
from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1958 and trained as a Navy
pilot. With the outbreak of the Vietnam War, McCain volunteered for
combat duty and began flying carrier-based attack planes on
low-altitude bombing runs against the North Vietnamese. McCain's plane
was shot down over the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. He eventually
spent five and a half years in various prison camps--three and a half
of those in solitary confinement--and was repeatedly beaten and
tortured before he was finally released. Having adapted well to the
largely conservative politics of his home state Arizona, McCain won
election to the U.S. Senate in 1986. In 1999, McCain emerged as a
challenger for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. However,
his large electoral deficit forced him to withdraw