Floyd James Thompson
Known for ActingBorn 1933-07-08 — died 2002-07-16Bergenfield, New Jersey, United States
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.
