Vietnam POW Who Blinked ‘torture’ Dies at 89 0 By KMAN Staff on March 28, 2014 AssociatedPress, Video Jeremiah Denton, who survived 71/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and alerted the U.S. military to conditions there when he blinked the word “torture” in Morse code during a television interview, has died. He was 89.