Jack’s Deep Investigation on U.S.S Pueblo
Temple College
Jack’s Deep Investigation on U.S.S Pueblo
A Review of
Jack Cheever’s
Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
By
Caden Forisha
Submitted to:
Amazing Professor Olivier
In his work, Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo which was published in 2013, Jack Cheever’s describes dramatic event of when North Korea captured a United States spy ship, and how it almost led to a second Korean War. Through the whole book Cheever provides great details of how the crewmen were captured, the torture they were put through, and how America tried eagerly to free the crewmen peacefully. By analyzing Jack Cheever’s organization, style, background and sources, one can understand how this truly is a phenomenal book and a must read for lovers of history.
By just looking at the title of the book, Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo, a reader can figure out the book will be about a conflict between the United States and North Korea. A conflict that involves a spy ship in the 1960’s. The way a reader can figure out that the time period was 1960’s is by the “Lyndon Johnson” part of the title. But what the reader might think it’s the reason for the Korean War, which it is not.
Before I read the book, I never knew about the U.S.S Pueblo and its contact with the North Koreans. I never knew about the harsh torture these American crewmen went through and that it took 1 year to get these crewmen back on America’s soil. But after reading the acknowledgments, I realized Cheever’s came upon this story randomly not expecting to get hooked. But when the ex-captains story, Bucher: My Story, caught his attention, he immediately made interviews. After many conversations with these different survivors he wanted to spread the word. So the authors purposed was to tell the American people about the terrible encounter that our own troops suffered
Jack’s Deep Investigation on U.S.S Pueblo
A Review of
Jack Cheever’s
Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
By
Caden Forisha
Submitted to:
Amazing Professor Olivier
In his work, Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo which was published in 2013, Jack Cheever’s describes dramatic event of when North Korea captured a United States spy ship, and how it almost led to a second Korean War. Through the whole book Cheever provides great details of how the crewmen were captured, the torture they were put through, and how America tried eagerly to free the crewmen peacefully. By analyzing Jack Cheever’s organization, style, background and sources, one can understand how this truly is a phenomenal book and a must read for lovers of history.
By just looking at the title of the book, Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo, a reader can figure out the book will be about a conflict between the United States and North Korea. A conflict that involves a spy ship in the 1960’s. The way a reader can figure out that the time period was 1960’s is by the “Lyndon Johnson” part of the title. But what the reader might think it’s the reason for the Korean War, which it is not.
Before I read the book, I never knew about the U.S.S Pueblo and its contact with the North Koreans. I never knew about the harsh torture these American crewmen went through and that it took 1 year to get these crewmen back on America’s soil. But after reading the acknowledgments, I realized Cheever’s came upon this story randomly not expecting to get hooked. But when the ex-captains story, Bucher: My Story, caught his attention, he immediately made interviews. After many conversations with these different survivors he wanted to spread the word. So the authors purposed was to tell the American people about the terrible encounter that our own troops suffered