Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1933-07-08
Deathday
2002-07-16
Place of Birth
Bergenfield, New Jersey, United States
Floyd James Thompson
Biography
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.