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Tran Trong Duyet, John McCain’s Captor at the ‘Hanoi Hilton,’ Dies at 92
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Tran Trong Duyet, Hoa Lo Prison's chief warden during the Vietnam War, died at 92. His role in the captivity of John McCain is disputed, with differing accounts of prisoner treatment. Duyet later expressed support for McCain.

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Tran Trong Duyet, John McCain’s Captor at the ‘Hanoi Hilton,’ Dies at 92

By Damien Cave

Reporting from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Published Aug. 29, 2025Updated Aug. 30, 2025

Tran Trong Duyet, the chief warden at Hoa Lo Prison, nicknamed the Hanoi Hilton, during the captivity of John McCain and other American pilots shot down during the Vietnam War, died on Wednesday in Haiphong, Vietnam. He was 92.

His family said the cause was lymphoma.

Mr. Duyet played a significant but disputed role in both the war and the biography of Mr. McCain, the senator from Arizona who was the Republican presidential candidate in 2008.

The prison where their lives intersected is now one of Hanoi’s most popular tourist spots. But what happened there during the Vietnam War remains contested, blurred perhaps by competing traumas of war and nationalist narratives.

For Mr. McCain, who died in 2018 at 81, Hoa Lo was a hellhole run by captors who he said were “cruel and sadistic people.” Many Americans there...

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