Saturday, May 26, 2012

Cold War POWS: Richard Rogala and Werner Juretzko



These two veterans co-presented a program based on their separate experiences at the Niles Library on Sunday, May 20 at 2 p.m. A son of Niles, Richard Rogala was captured by the North Koreans in early 1968 while serving on the ill-fated USS Pueblo.


Mr. Juretzko was captured by the East German STASI in 1955 while helping the US Army as a counter-intelligence agent.




The Pioneer Press covered the event and epublished this article about the successful program which also later appeared in the Niles Herald-Spectator of Thursday, May 24. The article was written by Tracy Gruen and the photographs were taken  by Vincent D. Johnson.

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