Sam Johnson, former Texas congressman and Vietnam POW, dead at 89


Sam Johnson, former Texas congressman and Vietnam POW, dead at 89



Former Texas Rep. Sam Johnson, a military pilot who spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before serving more than two decades in Congress, died Wednesday at age 89.

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