Stolen Honor

Stolen Honor is a 45minute video documentary that was released in September 2004. It features interviews with a number of American men who were prisoners of war in North Vietnam, who contend they suffered increased maltreatment while prisoners as a direct result of John Kerrys Fulbright Hearing testimony in April 1971. The subtitle of the film is Wounds That Never Heal on the production companys website the complete title is given instead as Stolen Honor John Kerrys Record of Betrayal. Its name was based on the book Stolen Valor How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History by B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley

Stolen Honor was a project of Red, White and Blue Productions, based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, whose public affairs are managed by Quantum Communications, a company owned by lobbyist Charlie Gerow, who also acted as publicist for the film. In 2000, Gerow ran on the Republican ticket for Congress 1. In 2003, he was nominated by President Bush to be a member of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission 2.Carlton Sherwood, the producer of Stolen Honor is a Vietnam War veteran who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for his work for the Gannett News Service. His appointments to several positions by Republican politicians has been cited as evidence of partisan biascitation needed and his journalism has been criticized. In 1983 he was responsible for a fourpart series on a Washington DC television station which charged the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund with misspendingif not stealingdonated money. The following year, after a GAO auditcitation needed and threats of a lawsuit, the station broadcast a retraction. Inquisition, his investigation of the 1982 tax fraud prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon leader of the Unification Church was published in 1991. The following year the PBS documentary series Frontline reported that James Gavin, an aide to Moon, had reviewed the overall tone and factual contents of the manuscript and that Sherwood had agreed to his revisions. Sherwood denied that the Unification Church exerted editorial control over the book. ........

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