Acting
July 8, 1933
Died at age 69
July 16, 2002
Date of Death
Bergenfield, New Jersey, United States
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Floyd James "Jim" Thompson was a United States Army colonel. He was the longest-held American prisoner of war in U.S. history, spending nearly nine years in captivity in the jungle camps and mountains of South Vietnam and Laos, and in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.