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Speaker Series: The Party Dolls – Escape from the Zoo Annex – Vietnam POW Story

July 5, 2025 @ 1:00 pm, ending 2:30 pm

Free with standard museum admission

Join us on Saturday, July 5th, 1pm to 2:30pm, for an engaging talk by award winning author George Hayward on his book The Party Dolls.

On 10 May 1969, two American prisoners of war escaped from a brutal Hanoi prison camp called the Annex. Their story is one of incredible bravery against the longest of odds. It’s also one of bitter conflict. Air Force Captains John Dramesi and Ed Atterberry escaped with help from their fellow prisoners, but that help was not given freely. The suffering it brought killed Atterberry, and scarred others for life.

Photo: John Dramesi on the left, AHM’s Hanoi Hilton Exhibit center, Ed Atterberry on the right.

THE PARTY DOLLS is the riveting, award-winning* true Vietnam War story of a failed escape code-named “the Party,” told by the former POWs who planned it. Author and former Air Force journalist George Hayward wrote it based on interviews he did between 1995 and 2002 with those POWs, and never released until this book. This is the most detailed account ever released of a heroic yet divisive—and little-known—episode from a divisive American conflict.

*2021 winner for Nonfiction Military History, Best Indie Book Awards® (BIBA®) and 2022 winner Military Nonfiction, Independent Press Awards.

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Date:
July 5, 2025
Time:
1:00 pm, ending 2:30 pm
Cost:
Free with standard museum admission
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NO GENERAL ADMISSIONS SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Tanks, Wings, and Wheels Weekend Event Tickets Available Only.

The Tanks, Wings, and Wheels Father's Day Weekend Event is taking place this Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21 from 9am to 5pm daily which includes admission to the American Heritage Museum and annex buildings. General Admissions tickets and NARM member admission are not valid for this weekend. American Heritage Museum members are admitted free with a member card.