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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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US Senate subcommittee hears testimonies from war crimes investigators and POW survivors detailing Korean communist atrocities, including torture with heated bamboo spears, mass shootings, and killings of civilians and soldiers during the Korean War.
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BY ALVIN SPIVAK
WASHINGTON- (INS)
An
army war crimes investigator told
Friday how Korean communists tor-
tured five American prisoners with
heated bamboo spears, then stabbed
them and left them to die.
Lt. Col. John W. Gorn of Ann Ar-
bor, Mich., related the grisly inci-
dent before a Senate Investigations
Subcommittee after his former Chief
Col. James Hanley, labeled Red a-
trocities in Korea a "definite pat-
tern" of murder.
Hanley accused the Reds of kill-
ing "tens of thousands" of South
Koreans and Americans - men,
women and children - and added:
"How many were killed is impos-
sible to know. We can only esti-
mate."
Sen. Charles E. Potter, himself a
legless veteran of World War II, is
acting as a one-man subcommittee
as a continuing flow of witnesses
detailed the horrible story of tor-
ture and mass slaughter.
FRIDAY'S TESTIMONY
Potter heard this other testi-
mony:
1. Former Cpl. Frederick J. Her-
mann of Evansville, Ind., said he
and five other prisoners "played
dead" when their Red captors shot
and killed seven others. He identi-
fied a photograph of the scene and
said the shooting took place in front
of a communist poster accusing the
South Koreans of brutalities.
2. Capt. Linton J. Buttrey of
Nashville, Tenn., recalled how Red
guards shot a chaplain while he was
administering last rites to a litter
patient.
3. Lt. Col. James T. Rogers of
Greenwood, S. C., confirmed Gorn's
description of the "Bamboo Spear
Case" and said his examination of
the victims' wounds showed that
"the instruments of torture were
previously heated and, after tortur-
ing them with these instruments,
the guards bayonetted them with
them and allowed them to bleed to
death."
SHOT IN BACK
4. Former Cpl. Arturo J. Jaramil-
lo of Pueblo, Colo., said he and two
fellow captives were shot in the
back by a North Korean guard who
followed them after forcing them to
run along a road. Wounded, he and
a sergeant who also survived, hid in
the snow-covered countryside for
19 days. When the veteran, whose
frozen toes were amputated, said he
is unemployed, Potter indicated he
would try to help him find a job.
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Primary Location
Korea
Event Date
Friday
Key Persons
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tens of thousands of south koreans and americans killed; five americans tortured and stabbed to death with heated bamboo spears; seven prisoners shot and killed; chaplain shot; three captives shot in the back, two survived after hiding for 19 days.
Event Details
Army war crimes investigator Lt. Col. John W. Gorn testified before Senate Investigations Subcommittee on how Korean communists tortured five American prisoners with heated bamboo spears before stabbing them. Col. James Hanley described Red atrocities in Korea as a pattern of murder killing tens of thousands. Sen. Charles E. Potter heard additional testimonies: Cpl. Frederick J. Herrmann on playing dead during shooting of seven prisoners; Capt. Linton J. Buttrey on shooting of chaplain; Lt. Col. James T. Rogers confirming bamboo spear torture details; Cpl. Arturo J. Jaramillo on being shot in the back while running and surviving 19 days in hiding.